Rocks and Minerals
The type of rock made from sediments.
What is a sedimentary rock?
A type of precipitation which has a low pH value can erode away statues.
What is acid rain?
What is the inner most layer of the Earth.
What is the core?
The molten rock that extrudes from a volcano.
What is lava?
A word you should never use in any scientific writing.
What is "prove"?
This is the hardest mineral.
The process of physically breaking down rocks to smaller and smaller pieces.
What is the mechanical weathering?
A hole in the middle of an plate which can extrude lava.
What is a hot spot?
The nickname for the circle of volcanoes around the Pacific.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is "theory"?
The test where you rub a mineral on a ceramic plate
What is the streak test?
When slabs of rock break away from the outer layers, like layers of an onion.
What is exfoliation?
What is the process of two oceanic plates pulling apart.
What is seafloor spreading?
The name of the biggest recent volcano on the continental US.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
What is the x axis?
The common classification of a mineral
What is a silicate?
The three different classifications of soil texture.
What is clay, silt, and sand.
The plastic layer beneath the lithosphere.
The type of volcano produced by very fluid basaltic lavas.
What is a shield volcano?
A question that is being investigated in scientific research.
What is a hypothesis?
The process which squeezes together sediment to make a rock.
What is compaction?
The very top layer of soil which contains living and recently living material.
What is the O layer?
The first type of wave to be received by a seismograph.
What is a p wave?
What is the smallest type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
The water portion of the earth.
What is the hydrosphere?