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Slow or Quick Changes
Differences
Rocks and Minerals
100

The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.

What is weathering?

100

Wind and water can carry sand and small pieces of rock to new locations. What is this process called? 

What is Deposition?

100

SOIL QUESTION:

List the Horizons from top to bottom.

Horizon O
Horizon A
Horizon B
Horizon C
Horizon R

100

The difference between weathering and erosion is: 

a. weathering causes a quick change in landforms and erosion causes a slow change in landforms. 

b. weathering breaks rocks into sediments and erosion moves sediment from one place to another.

What is B?

100

Name the 3 types of Rocks

Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

200

Mountains, islands, valleys, canyons, volcanos and other surface features of the land.

What are landforms?

200

When rainwater seeps into cracks in rocks and __________, it expands and causes the rock to split apart.

What is freezes?

200

Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)

What is slowly?

200

The difference between erosion and deposition is: 

a. erosion moves sediment from one place to another and deposition is a physical feature on the Earth. 

b. deposition is the process of dropping, or depositing , sediment in a new location and erosion is the process of moving sediment from one place to another.

What is B?

200

Which of the following defines a ROCK? (select all that apply)

A. the texture it has

B. the amount of crystals

C. the mineral composition

D. the way the rock was formed

E. the weathering of nearby rocks

A, C, D

300

The process by which weathered rock and sediments are carried away/moved 

What is erosion?

300

Hot liquid made of melted minerals is ___________. The minerals can form ____________ when they cool

What is magma, crystals?

300

True or False: Erosion can change the shape of the land faster than a volcano can. 

What is False?

300

Name 1 Different agent for each physical and chemical weathering.

Phys: Freeze, Plant growth, exfoliation, Abrasion, Animals, Temperature

Chem: Water, Oxygen, Living organisms, acid rain, carbon dioxide

300

TRUE or FALSE: A mineral with a hardness of 6.5 can scratch a mineral with a hardness of 6.2

TRUE

400

Nonliving, solid material that are formed in nature and make up rocks

What are minerals?

400

The rock cycle is a process of rocks changing into from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic to magma back to igneous, and not always in that order. Name at least 3 of the factors causing rocks to change

What is weathering, erosion, heat, pressure, melting, cooling

400

DAILY DOUBLE +800!!!!
SOIL QUESTION: Explain the formation of Soil.

(R)Bedrock is weathered down forming (C) the parent material breaks down more and sand, silt, clay.
400

Which of the following belongs as characteristics of a Mineral?

A. Streak Test, Hardness, Luster

B. Luster, Hardness, Solid

C. Solid, Definite Chemical Compound, Crystalline

D. Organic, Solid, Definite Chemical Compound

C are characteristics of Minerals

400

Name of the Mineral Identification Test:

1. Test that reveals the powder form

2. Ability to scratch other minerals

3. The way it reflects of light

4. Breaks into smooth flat surfaces

1. Streak Test

2. Hardness Test

3. Luster

4. Cleavage

500

This rock forms when magma cools and makes crystals

What is Igneous?

500

SOIL QUESTION:
Nutrients are washed and drained from Horizon A down to Horizon B.

What is Leeching?

500

Landslides are quick changes to the land. They can be caused by:

A. magma and rain

B. gravity and rain

C. Ice and wind

What is gravity and rain?

500

The difference between physical and chemical weathering is:

A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever.

B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.

What is A?

500

Scientists have concluded that coal is not a mineral. What is the reasoning for this claim?

Coal is organic and minerals MUST be inorganic.