Weathering/Erosion
The breaking down of rock by wind, ice, temperature change and plants.
What is physical weathering?
The names of the three categories of rocks.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
________ are a naturally occurring inorganic solid with a distinct chemical composition and crystalline structure.
What are minerals?
Resources that can be reused, recycled, or replenished over a person’s lifetime.
What are renewable resources?
Rocks are made up of one or more _______.
What is minerals?
The movement of rock by gravity, wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
What is igneous rock?
_________ is the tendency of a mineral to break along specific planes of weakness, resulting in smooth surfaces or jagged edges.
What is cleavage?
Resources that have a limited supply. Many take millions of years to replenish.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Oil, Limestone, and Coal are all examples of _________ resources.
What is nonrenewable?
_________ is an agent of erosion. It pulls objects down and causes them to move downhill.
What is gravity?
This type of rock is formed from pieces of other rocks and fossilized organisms.
What is sedimentary rock?
_______ describes how the mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
What is renewable?
Limestone is a type of sedimentary rock. It becomes marble when it goes through a certain process. ______ and ______ causes limestone to become marble.
What is heat and pressure?
________ an agent of weathering and erosion. It carries small sediment with it and wears down rock that it hits.
What is wind?
This type of rock is formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
________ of a mineral is its resistance to abrasion or scratching.
What is hardness?
Florida's nonrenewable resources include phosphate, oil, ______ and _______.
What is silicon and limestone?
Florida's renewable resources include water energy, wind energy, ________ and _______.
What is solar energy and oranges?
______ ______ is an agent of weathering. As rocks heat and expand and cool and contract, the rocks are weakened and will eventually crack (break).
What is temperature change?
Rocks are formed both ________ and ________.
What is organically and inorganically?
This characteristic is done by running a sample across a plate and analyzing the color of the powdered trail that is produced.
What is streak color?
Solar, limestone, wind, and oranges. ______ does not belong.
What is limestone?
________ and ________ help change the surface of the Earth.
What is weathering and erosion?