Vocabulary
Rocks and Minerals
Por/Perm/Cap
Earthquakes/Plate tectonics
W.E.D.
100
This is the movement of sediment
What is erosion?
100
Minerals are made of these
What are elements?
100
This describes how easily water can move through particles
What is permeability?
100
This is the location of the earthquake under the ground
What is the focus?
100
The breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
200
This is another name for the curves in a river
What is meanders?
200
A rock has air pockets in it. What type of rock is it?
What is igneous
200
This describes the upward movement of water based on the size of the particles
What is capillarity?
200
This is the location above an earthquake that is plotted on a map
What is the epicenter?
200
This mineral breaks in a certain pattern. What do we call this?
What is cleavage?
300
This is the term used to describe small bits of rock
What is sediment?
300
This is the hardness of a glass plate
What is 5.5?
300
This describes the open space between particles
What is porosity?
300
This plate boundary is sliding past each other in opposite directions
What is transform?
300
This landscape consists of metamorphic bedrock and high elevations
What is a highland (Mountains)
400
This is when eroded sediment is dropped/settles
What is deposition?
400
This is how metamorphic rocks form
What is heat and pressure?
400
Both beakers hold the same volume of material. Out of porosity, permeability, and capillarity, which will be equal for both containers
What is porosity?
400
This is the only layer of the Earth that is liquid
What is the outer core
400
This fan-like feature is created at the mouth of a river where the speed of the water slows down
What are deltas?
500
These are the two types of weathering
What are physical and chemical weathering?
500
What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale?
What is diamond?
500
Both beakers hold the same volume of material. This beaker will have a higher capillarity than the other
What is beaker A (left)?
500
This feature is created at convergent boundaries and can be the deepest parts of the ocean
What is a trench?
500
On the inside of the curve in a river, this occurs
What is deposition?