Minerals
Are minerals the same things as rocks?
No!!!!! Rocks and minerals are different. Rocks do not make up minerals, but minerals make up rocks.
Name two geoscience processes that we have talked about in class during Topic 5.
Possible answers: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and mountains forming.
Name the missing rock type: igneous, metamorphic, and ____________.
Sedimentary
Are natural resources evenly distributed? Yes or no?
NO!!!!!!!! They are unevenly distributed
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter.
Rock
How many elements make up minerals?
It can be one or several.
See model, what geoscience process is this a model of?
Earthquake
Heat and Pressure
How can earthquakes change where natural resources are found?
The land is changing and that can move around where natural resources are, it can create more natural resources like minerals, but can also destroy natural resources, like trees.
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust, and the rigid outermost part of the mantle.
Tectonic Plates
Zinc, Bauxite, Quartz snd Silica are common minerals, true or false?
True!
What does each geoscience process have in common? (Think about how they are created)
They are caused by the movement of plate tectonics.
What kind of rock type when it cools and hardens can create new land and creates islands?
Igneous
Why are natural resources unevenly distributed?
Because of how they are created. On the surface and underneath the surface there are different processes that create different natural resources and those aren't everywhere. For example, volcanoes typically erupt where plate tectonics meet and plate tectonics do not meet everywhere under the surface.
The solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
The sea floor
Name two reasons why minerals are important to humans?
Everything we depend on is either made from minerals or relies on minerals for its production.
Examples: buildings and infrastructure, in our bodies, for electronics etc.
Name a geoscience process that can happen when plate tectonics do the process of subduction?
Could say earthquakes or tsunamis or volcanoes erupting.
Does the rock cycle go in a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction?
Clockwise!!
The amount of groundwater in an aquifer can change. Give at least two examples to support this claim.
1. Precipitation amounts
2. Water can leave running down a slope
3. People drill wells to use for farming or drinking water
A narrow depression on the seafloor.
Trench
Explain the relationship between volcanoes and minerals.
Volcanoes help to directly or indirectly produce many minerals. Heat and pressure and cooling of lava from volcanoes create many minerals. This is why many many minerals are found on coasts, similar to why many volcanoes are found on coasts. It's where most plate tectonics meet!
Name another geoscience process besides volcanoes that has helped to concentrate minerals near the Earth's surface. How did that process help concentrate minerals near the surface?
Earthquakes: expanding mineral deposits, creating more room for minerals to form like gold!
Mountains: as mountains form and "grow", the pressure can create minerals such as quartz.
What determines where materials are in the rock cycle? Such as how deep in the Earth the materials are?
The temperature and the density of the material.
Why are aquifers unevenly distributed? Must give the geological answer.
It precipitates different amounts in different places. The way aquifers are formed is not going to be even across the world.
Fracture Zone