Weathering and Erosion
The breaking down of rocks and soil
What is weathering?
Consists of gas, dust, millions of stars, and objects that orbit stars like planets, asteroids, or comets
What is a galaxy?
Where photosynthesis happens
What are leaves/pine needles?
Do nothing to this group and compare all other setups to it
What is a control group?
How a mineral appears to the eye
What is color?
One way ice can be considered weathering
What is expanded ice?
The order of the planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The testes or ovaries
What are the reproductive organs?
Reproducing someone else's experiment the exact same way they did it
What is a replication?
How hard a rock is
What is hardness?
When sediments are no longer moving
What is deposition?
This happens in about a 27 days
What is the revolution of the moon around Earth?
Does not completely change. Egg-nymph-adult.
What is an incomplete metamorphosis?
When you carefully make observations, study, or test something to learn more about it
What is an investigation?
This is the color of the powder
What is streak?
The moving of rock and soil
What is erosion?
The New Moon, the First Quarter Moon, the Full Moon, and the Third Quarter Moon
What are the phases of the moon?
Characteristics that are passed from parents to offspring
What is an inheritance?
Used to understand things that are too big, too small, or to describe the way things work
What are models?
How a mineral reflects light
What is luster?
Little pieces of rock, sand, or soil
What are sediments?
The amount of moon phases
What are 8 moon phases?
An overlap in the food chain
What is a food web?
All experiments should have a minimum of three trials
What are repeated trials?
How a mineral or rock breaks
What is cleavage?