Properties of Rocks
Rock Cycle
Resources
Processes & More
Earth and Moon
100

When you describe a rock as green, this is the property you are observing.

What is color?

100
Rocks are made of these that cannot be broken down any further.
What are minerals?
100

Phosphate, one Florida's resources, is primarily used for what purpose?

Fertilizer. 

100

This is the process of moving rocks and sediment to a new location.

What is erosion?

100

This causes the Earth to have day and night.

Earth's rotation.

200
I can scratch my rock with a fingernail and a penny describes which property.
What is hardness?
200

This type of rock is most likely to contain fossils.

What is sedimentary rock?

200

Wind is an example of what type of resource?

renewable
200
Name 3 natural processes that can cause weathering and erosion.

Possible answers:  Wind, water, ice, gravity

200
Which of Earth's movements takes approximately 365 days to complete?

Earth's revolution, or orbit, around the sun.

300
When a mineral breaks along a smooth, flat surface it shows this.
What is cleavage?
300

Igneous rocks form when this happens.

When liquid rock cools and hardens.

300

As natural resources, wind, water, and solar energy all have what in common?

They are all renewable resources.

300

How is weathering different from erosion? 

Weathering breaks rocks apart into sediments; erosion carries sediment to a new location.

300

This causes the Earth to have seasons.

What is a revolution and tilted axis?

400

Define "streak color" when testing a mineral.

The fine powder left behind from rubbing a mineral across a white tile shows this.

400

How does a rock change into a metamorphic rock?

It undergoes excessive heat and pressure.

400
What type of resources takes a very long time to replenish itself?

nonrenewable

400

Describe how wind can weather AND erode rock.

Wind picks up sediments from the ground, which breaks off smaller pieces of sediment from the larger rock, and then carries (erodes) the sediments to a new location.

400

Why does the Moon appear to change over the course of a month?

The Moon's position in its orbit around Earth, or its revolution.