Minerals
Water
Rocks
Weathering
This n that
100
A repeating pattern of atoms.
What is a crystal?
100
It is the changing of water from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
An igneous rock texture that contains large, visible mineral crystals.
What is intrusive?
100
It is the orgnaic material found in soil.
What is humus?
100
It is water that has soaked under the ground surface.
What is groundwater?
200
It is the least reliable of all mineral properties.
What is color?
200
It is the movement of water over the land in the form of rivers and streams.
What is runoff?
200
A sedimentary rock texture that shows pieces of other rocks or fossils.
What is detrital?
200
Examples of this process could include frost wedging or unloading.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
This chracteristic determines what type (igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic) a rock will become.
What is formation?
300
It is a luster that looks like shiny, polished metal.
What is metallic?
300
It is the downward movement of water through soil.
What is leaching?
300
It is the main factor that determines igneous rock texture.
What is cooling time (or cooling location)?
300
This substance is usually essential for most kinds of chemical weatheirng to occur.
What is water (or oxygen)?
300
In additon to heat, this also is responsible for the formation of metamorphic rocks.
What is pressure?
400
It is the tendency of a mineral to break along jagged, rough surfaces.
What is fracture?
400
They are the two properties of a good aquifer.
What are porous and permeable?
400
It is a characteristic found in both metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
What are layers?
400
All soil is made of some combination of these three substances.
What are clay, sand and silt?
400
It is matter made of only one kind of atom.
What is an element?
500
They are three mineral properties that result from the chemical composition of a mineral.
What are luster, streak and hardness? (also color)
500
In addition to discharge, it is the other factor that determines water's erosive power.
What is slope or gradient?
500
It is a negative feedback in the Rock Cycle responsible for the formation of igneous rocks.
What is melting?
500
This process occurs when different types of rocks break down at different rates, resulting in landforms such as arches and buttes.
What is differential weathering?
500
It is a stream deposit that forms when a river or stream reach a lake or the cean.
What is a delta?
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