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A natural feature of the Earth’s surface.
What is a landform?
A solid material that is formed by nature in or on Earth's crust.
What is a mineral?
Audrey learned that when limestone undergoes extreme heat and pressure, it will change to marble. What type of rock is marble?
What is a metamorphic rock?
Water freezes inside small openings in a cliff and cracks the rock. This is an example of weathering or erosion?
What is weathering? (Frost Wedging)
Water, wind, and sunlight are examples of ___________ resources.
What are renewable?
The way light bounces off a mineral’s surface.
What is luster?
Julie rubbed the mineral pyrite on a ceramic tile and saw a gray powder left behind. What is Julie testing?
What is the true color of the mineral?
The volcano of Kilauea in Hawaii is an active volcano. What types of rocks can be found near an active volcano?
What are igneous rocks?
A river carries away bits of soil and rock. Is this an example of weathering or erosion?
What is erosion?
Fossil fuels, such as oil and gas, are considered ___________ resources.
What are nonrenewable?
The color of powder left when a mineral is rubbed against a hard, rough surface.
What is streak?
Michael scratched the mineral with his nail, a copper penny, and a steel nail. What is he testing?
What is the mineral's hardness?
Saul found a rock near the beach that had bits of shells and sand stuck together. What type of rock did he find?
What is sedimentary rock?
Another word for rusting?
What is oxidation?
Why are fossil fuels considered "nonrenewable" resources?
Because it would take millions of years to replace them.
How well a mineral resists scratching.
What is hardness?
Marcy wrote on the lab sheet that talc is dull. Dull describes the mineral's ___________?
What is luster?
Melted rock is called magma. What do you call magma that flows out of the ground onto Earth's surface?
What is lava?
Another word for pressure release?
What is exfoliation?
Name an alternative energy to fossil fuels.
What is ____
wind
solar
hydro
geothermal
The tendency of a mineral to break along flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
Sandra found a unique mineral on her trip to Arizona. When she arrived home the mineral had broken inside of her luggage. She noticed that it broke along flat surfaces. What property is Sandra observing in this mineral?
What is cleavage?
The process of rocks changing into other kinds of rock is know as the ___________?
What is the rock cycle?
Another word for dissolving?
What is carbonation?
Many different energy sources are found in Florida. Which of the following is nonrenewable?
solar water
oil wind
What is oil?