Rocks and Minerals
The center of the earth.
What is the core?
Anything that has mass or volume
What is matter?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
The thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
These are a way to divide the biosphere into smaller sections.
What are biomes?
The thin outer layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
The process of a solid changing to a liquid.
What is melting?
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
The condition of the atmosphere at any given time.
What is the weather?
The largest marine biome.
What is the ocean?
The ability of a mineral to resit scratching.
What is hardness?
The state of matter has a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
Energy that an object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Condensed water vapor or ice crystals form this.
What are clouds?
The coldest biome.
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
Two or more substances that are physically combined form this.
What is a mixture?
The transfer or movement of thermal energy from one substance to another?
What is heat?
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the earth and land as tiny ice pellets.
What is sleet?
Land biome that is almost always wet.
What is the wetland?
This is used to determine the hardness of minerals.
What is the Mohs scale?
This is what water is called because so many things dissolve in it.
What is a universal solvent?
These are formed when the remains of plants and animals were buried quickly during the Genesis Flood.
What are fossil fuels?
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
Partially decayed plant material that has piled up into dense layers in bogs.
What is peat?