Name four mineral tests we did to identify a mineral.
Luster- The way a mineral reflects light from its surface.
Clevage- A mineral's ability to splist easily on a flat surface.
Hardness- A mineral's ability to scratch a softer surface.
Streak- The color of a mineral's powder.
100
Revolves around Earth as well as rotates on its own axis.
What is Earth's moon?
100
A negatively charged particle that is found outside the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
Wait, then what is a proton? and a neutron?
200
Describe the difference between the longitudinal wave and the transverse wave.
A longitudinal wave moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels (THINK sLinky) while the transverse wave moves the medium perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels. (THINK rope)
200
A material through which charges can easily flow.
What is a conductor?
200
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is the sedimentary rock?
200
What is the difference between rotation and revolution?
Revolution- The movement of an object around another.
Rotation- The spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
200
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is rarefraction?
300
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes.
What is amplitude?
300
The continuous flow of electric chrages through a material.
What is an electric current?
300
A naturally occuring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
(DON'T OVERTHINK THIS ONE)
What is a mineral?
300
The Earth is tilted on its axis. At the equator, Earth is split in two. These two chunks of Earth are called the...
Northern and Southern Hemispheres
300
A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
The bending of waves as they move around a barrier or pass through an opening.
What is diffraction?
400
What is the SI unit for work?
Joules (JOOLS)
400
A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface.
What is the igneous rock?
400
The attractive force between objects; its strength depends on their masses and the distance between them.
What is gravity?
400
A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
500
The change in frequency of a wave as its source moves in relation to an observer.
What is the Doppler effect?
500
Decribe the difference between ampere, volt and watt.
Watts (W) - ELECTRICITY
Ampere (A) - Electric CURRENT
Volt (V) - Electric POTENTIAL
500
A scale ranking ten minerals from softest to hardest; used in testing the hardness of minerals.
What is Mohs hardness scale?
500
Decribe the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth. During a lunar eclipse, Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon.
500
Name all 8 moon phases starting with the New Moon.
(*HINT* the 5th phase is the Full Moon)
1. New Moon
2. Waxing Crescent
3. First Quarter
4. Waxing Gibbous
5. Full Moon
6. Waning Gibbous
7. Third Quarter
8. Waning Cresent