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What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
Crust
Name one type of rock.
Either metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous
What is one metal in the inner core?
Iron or nickel
What is one type of fossil?
true form, cast, mold, carbon imprint, petrified
If we wanted to report the length of a rock sample, what units would we use?
centimeters
What are the two names of melted rock?
magma and lava
Name 2 igneous rocks.
Any of the two: pumice, basalt, granite, rhyolite, obsidian
Which type of volcano flows the furthest from the crater?
Shield
True or False: A fossil is always the actual body part of the organism.
False
Hot magma travels up or down.
Up
Name 3 types of volcanoes.
Any of these 3: shield, composite ( stratovolcano), dome, and cinder cone
Give an example of a force that can weather rock.
water, ice, acids, wind, or other mechanical force
Name 3 forces that help change rocks in the rock cycle.
weathering, erosion, heat, pressure, plate motion,
Which kind of plate motion causes earthquakes?
sliding past each other
What organisms decompose dead material?
Decomposers like fungi, worms, bacteria
How do we test hardness of minerals?
You rub your finger nail, penny, glass, and steel nail.
How are color and streak different?
Color is what we see; the streak is what color the rubbing of a mineral on a streak plate leaves.
To produce a metamorphic rock, you need heat and ______________
pressure
When you want to measure mass, what instrument do you use?
scale
Describe how a mold and a cast fossil are different. You can share how each was made.
Mold is a pushed in version and the cast is a replica outward - almost like an actual model of the object.
Give a pH of an acid and a base.
Acids- 0-6 and Bases 8-14
Why do the plates move?
Convection currents in the mantle as hot material rises and cooler material sinks moves the plates.
When limestone dissolves in water, does the water turn into an acid or base?
acid
Name 3 parts of a volcano
crater, magma chamber, vent, slope, lava
When calculating the frequency of a wave, we count _________ per minute.
waves