Soil
Minerals
Rocks
Mineral Properties
The Rock Cycle
100
This soil ingredient is made up of decayed plants and animals. a. air b. humus c. minerals d. water
What is b. humus
100
What is Mohs Scale used for?
What is Mohs Scale is used to determine a minerals hardness.
100
What type of rock is formed by heating and squeezing existing rocks?
What is metamorphic rock.
100
What mineral property is determined by scratching a mineral across an unglazed, white tile?
What is a minerals streak.
100
What is the rock cycle?
Its a rocks journey on a continuous cycle over millions of years.
200
What is gritty to the touch, has large particles, allows for drainage but does not hold onto nutrients?
What is Sand?
200
A natural, solid substance that has a definite chemical composition and physical structure is known as.
What is a mineral.
200
What are sedimentary rocks made up of?
What is dissolved minerals, dead and animal matter, and pieces of other rocks.
200
This type of mineral property can be detected if it glows under an ultraviolet light.
What is fluorescence.
200
What are the three types of rocks used in the rock cycle?
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks.
300
What are the three environmental factors that can affect the rate of weathering and soil formation?
What is climate, surface area, and rock composition?
300
What is the difference between a mineral and rock?
What is "a mineral has a definite chemical composition and structure and a rock is made up of two or more minerals."
300
What kind of rock is produced by deposition, cementation and compaction over thousands of years as sediments settle?
What is sedimentary rock.
300
This type of mineral property determines a minerals ability to resist being scratched. It ranks 1 to 10 on Moh's Scale.
What is hardness.
300
When igneous rock is weathered and eroded into sediments and then compacted and cemented, what type of rock does it form?
What is sedimentary rock.
400
Soil is a mixture made up of four main ingredients. Choose the correct list of ingredients. a. tiny pieces of rock, humus, air and sand b. humus, or dead plant material, clay, water, and salts. c. tiny pieces of rock, air, water, and humus or dead plant material d. air, water, tiny pieces of rock, and manure.
What is c. tiny pieces of rock, air, water, and humus or dead plant material
400
Coal is usually found underground, compressed in a layer between other types of rock. Coal is produced by what rock-forming process? a. crystallization from melted rock b. formation of sediment from weathering c. deposition and burial of dead plant matter d. eruption of volcanic ash followed by settling in a layer
What is C. deposition and burial of dead plant matter
400
This type of rock is form from liquid magma cooling.
What is igneous rock.
400
This mineral property describes how a mineral breaks into flat surfaces.
What is cleavage.
400
When sedimentary rock melts, what does it become?
What is magma.
500
**DAILY DOUBLE** Identify the correct order of a soil profile.
What is O: Humus, A: topsoil, B: subsoil, C: Parent Material, D: Bedrock
500
Name two things in your school building that come from minerals.
What is chalk (chalkboards), graphite (pencils), coal (heat for the school), asphalt (make from sand & gravel), halite (salt in your lunches)... answers may vary
500
Igneous Rock has two ways in which the rock forms. Identify and explain each of the types.
What is intrusive & extrusive rock. Intrusive forms and cools below Earth's surface while extrusive rock forms and cools quickly on Earth's surface.
500
Explain the difference between a minerals luster and color.
Luster describes how a mineral appears to reflect light, how it shines or whether it is dull. The mineral's color is what color the mineral appears while looking at it.
500
Granite, a type of igneous rock is formed under the Earth's surface and has large crystals. Is granite intrusive or extrusive igneous rock?
What is an intrusive igneous rock.
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