What is a word that means "of the moon"? What is moon?
100
A rock displaces 20 mL of water in a graduated cylinder.
What is a 20 cm3 volume rock? What is the rocks volume? How much water does the rock displace if it is 20 cm3?
100
An explanation to be tested
What is a hypothesis?
100
A common rock forming, glassy mineral with a hardness of 7.
What is quartz?
100
Changes that rocks undergo at or near the Earth's surface.
What is the rock cycle?
200
marine or hydro
What is a word meaning water? What is a prefix meaning water?
200
The formula for density.
What is m/v? What is mass/volume? What is mass divided by volume?
200
Until the data is consistent.
What is the number of repeated trials in an experiment?
200
Muscovite mica splits easily in thin flexible sheets due to its...
What is cleavage? What is its internal atomic arrangement (structure)?
200
You find a rock that you think is metamorphic because it has this texture.
What is foliated (non-foliated)?
300
lith
What is a prefix meaning rock?
300
An object is placed in 50 mL of water. The water goes up to the 60 mL mark. The mass of the object is 20 g. The density of the object is...
What is 2 g/cm3? What is 2 g/mL?
300
The variable that is changed on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
300
If one mineral scratches another the first is said to be... than the other.
What is harder?
300
You identify a chunk of igneous rock as granite, which you suspect that it forms intrusively due to this texture.
What is coarse grained (phaneritic)?
400
algal
What is a word meaning formed from algae?
400
The density is 2.5 g/cm3. The volume is 2 mL. The mass is...
What is 5 grams?
400
The experiment is designed to measure the temperature of soil compared to water after 5 minutes under a heat lamp. The term for the temperature of the soil...
What is the dependent variable?
400
D.I.S.C.O. (define mineral)
What is Definite composition, Inorganic, Solid, Crystalline, Occurs naturally?
400
The mineral that forms last (at the coolest temperatures) in the Bowens reaction series is found in granite. The mineral (also a rock) is the most resistant to weathering.
What is quartz?
500
phyto as in phytoplankton
What is a prefix meaning plants
500
The volume of a block of galena is 10 cm3. The mass of the block is 76 g. The density of half of the block is...
What is 7.6 g/cm3? (The same as the density for the whole block)
500
The experiment is designed to measure the temperature of soil compared to water after 5 minutes under a heat lamp. Other containers of soil and water are placed several feet away from the heat lamp and their temperature is also measured. They are ...
What is the control (group)?
500
One of the most common ores of iron, this mineral is metallic and has a reddish brown streak.
What is hematite?
500
A clastic sedimentary rock with rounded, gravel sized grains.