Earth Science
Minerals
Rocks
Structure
Weathering & Erosion
100
Oceanography
What is the study of the Earth's oceans?
100
Minerals have a solid form.
What form minerals are in?
100
Rocks formed from cool or hardened magma.
What are igneous rocks?
100
The center of the Earth
What is the core?
100
The physical weathering or breaking down of rocks by physical processes
What is Mechanical Weathering?
200
Six steps
How many steps are there in the scientific method?
200
96% of the earth's crust is made up of silicate minerals.
How much of the earth is made of silicate minerals?
200
Rocks formed from sediments that have been compacted and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
The thin hard outer layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
200
Breaking down of rocks by chemical processes
What is Chemical Weathering?
300
10. Length&Volume&Mass&Temperature
What are other countries metric systems based on? And what is the metric system used for?
300
Color, Luster, Streak, Hardness, Density, Cleavage, and Fracture.
How can you identify a mineral?
300
Rocks formed when the structure and constitution of existing rocks change due to heat, pressure, and/or chemical reactions.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
The fastest seismic waves which travel through solid, liquids, and gases.
What are Primary Waves?
300
The breaking down of a compound by a chemical reaction with water
What is Hydrolysis?
400
Touching, Smelling, Tasting
During an experiment what do you think before doing?
400
Bending of a light wave due to change in the wave's speed as it passes through one medium to another.
What is refraction?
400
Molten rock beneath the Earth's crust.
What is magma?
400
The crust on which the continents rest
What is continental crust?
400
The removal and transport of material by wind, water, or ice
What is Erosion?
500
Projection
What is a system of lines drawn on a flat surface to represent curves
500
Can be used for pots, pans, jewelry, eye glass lenses, and explosives.
What are some uses of minerals?
500
Igneous-Sedimentary-Metamorphic
What is the order of the rock cycle?
500
Layer of upper mantle composed of low-density rock material that is like putty.
What is the athenosphere?
500
Dangerous places to live for obvious reasons
What are floodplains?
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