Minerals & Rocks
Soil
Fossils & Energy Sources
Water & Air
Wildcard
100
The property of minerals to describe whether or not it reflects light.
What is luster?
100
Organic material found in the A Horizon that provides nutrients to plants.
What is humus?
100
Name two examples of alternative energy sources.
What is solar, wind, running water, nuclear, biomass, and/or geothermal energy?
100
The number #1 use of freshwater.
What is irrigation?
100
Organic material is this.
What is once-living organisms?
200
The SPECIFIC type of rock that is made from magma (inside of Earth).
What is intrusive igneous rock?
200
The horizon that is made mostly of weathered bedrock.
What is C Horizon?
200
The three different fossil fuels.
What are oil, natural gas and coal?
200
One thing that we can ALL do to conserve water.
What is ***answer varies*** use less water when brushing our teeth
200
These are the ways you can test a mineral WITHOUT damaging it.
What is observe luster, shape, color, and streak.
300
The property of minerals to describe a mineral's resistance to scratching.
What is hardness?
300
A way to conserve soil by planting a new type of crop in the soil each season to put nutrients back in.
What is crop rotation?
300
The exact age of a substance.
What is absolute age?
300
The type of pollution found in cities due to the burning of fossil fuels.
What is smog?
300
This is how we can determine relative ages of rocks/fossils.
What is the Law of Superposition?
400
The two things must be present for an igneous or sedimentary rock to become metamorphic.
What is heat and pressure?
400
Another name for the B Horizon.
What is subsoil?
400
Fossil fuels are made from these.
What are ancient plants and animals?
400
The name of the law passed to keep water clean.
What is the Clean Water Act?
400
You find an element's half-life to determine this about a rock or fossil.
What is absolute age?
500
The two things that must be present for sediments to turn into rocks.
What is compaction (pushing together) and cementation?
500
The place where nutrients are found in forest soil.
What is deep within the ground?
500
Explain what ________ energy is. Give one pro and one con.
What is *** answers vary***
500
The first step in treating polluted or used water.
What is coagulation?
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