Water forms
Landforms
Soil
Minerals
Rocks
100
What is a large body of salt water that surrounds a continent?
ocean
100
What is an opening in Earth's surface from which the lava flows?
volcano
100
Which type of soil is reddish and has very small grains and holds water easily? The water makes this soil sticky when wet
clay
100
What property is used when looking at mineral and saying that is shiny, pearly, glassy or dull?
luster
100
What is a rock that was once melted but has cooled and hardened? The melted material is called magma or lava.
igneous
200
What are large flowing bodies of fresh water that usually empties into a sea or ocean?
Rivers
200
What is a large cave or underground chamber that forms when water wears away the rock?
cavern
200
Which type of soil is dark, soft and very crumbly?
humus
200
What is the number of a mineral if it is the softest?
1
200
What type of rocks are usually made up of pieces of rock called sediments that been pressed and cemented together?
What is sedimentary?
300
What are huge sheets of ice that cover land and are found where temperatures are very cold?
glaciers
300
What is a deep valley with very steep sides?
canyon
300
What soil is made up of decayed plants and once-living organisms?
humus
300
True or false? A mineral can by identified by using only the property of color?
False
300
What type of rock is a marble?
What is metamorphic
400
What are large bodies of salt water that is often connected to an ocean?
sea
400
What is an area of land that is entirely surrounded by water?
island
400
What type of soil has pieces that are smaller than sand and feels like powder?
silt
400
What are the four properties for identifying minerals?
hardness, color, luster and special properties
400
What type of rock was once another type of rock deep inside Earth, but heat and the pressing of the rocks above caused the minerals to change?
What is metamorphic
500
Where do we get our fresh water from?
rivers and streams
500
What is a place on Earth's surface where the land is much higher than the land that surrounds it?
mountain
500
What soil has large grains with large spaces between the grains and lets water leave it quickly and feels gritty?
sand
500
What is used to identify minerals?
Mineral Identification Key
500
What type of rock may contain pieces of animal shells and skeletons or other remains of plants or animals?
What is sedimentary
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