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100
A curve or loop in a river.
What is a meander?
100
Is a fan shaped deposit at the mouth of a river.
What is a Delta?
100
Is the way a mineral's surface reflects the light.
What is luster?
100
Is a nearly level area that has been eroded or where materials have been deposited.
What is a Plain?
100
Is the process in which sediment settles out of water or is dropped by the wind.
What is deposition?
200
A natural solid made of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
200
Is the color of the powder left behind when you rub a mineral against a rough white tile, or streak plate.
What is streak?
200
Is a gently sloping shore next to a body of water, washed by waves or tides often covered with sand and pebbles.
What is a beach?
200
Is the rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.
What is Igneous Rock?
200
Which of the following can be caused by weathering? a. cracks forming in a boulder. b. rocks melting to form magma. c. Glaciers forming on a mountain side. d. Pebbles combining to from a large rock.
What is a. cracks forming in a bolder?
300
A continuous process in which one type of rock changes into another type.
What is rock cycle?
300
Is a V-shaped valley eroded by a river.
What is a canyon?
300
Is a rock that is changed by heat and pressure into a new form.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
Is a nearly level area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
300
Which of the following statements best describes sandy soils. a. sandy soils allow water to drain quickly. b. sandy soils easily break down into clay sediments. c. sandy soils hold plant roots tightly in place to prevent erosion. d. sandy soils have high levels of decomposed plant and animal matter.
What is a. sandy soils allow water to drain quickly?
400
A naturally occurring, nonliving solid that has a specific chemical makeup and a crystalline, pr repeating atomic structure.
What is a mineral?
400
Is the process of wearing away rocks by natural processes.
What is weathering?
400
Is a high uplifted area with steep slopes.
What is a mountain?
400
Is the cemented sediment that forms a rock.
What is Sedimentary rock?
400
Which of the following best describes a mineral? a. the main nutrient in all foods. b. a type of grain found in cereals. c. a natural substance that makes up rocks. d. the decomposed plant matter found in soil.
What is c. a natural substance that makes up rocks?
500
Is the process of moving sediment by wind, water, or ice.
What is Erosion?
500
Is the land that gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood.
What is Floodplain?
500
Is a minerals ability to resist being scratched.
What is hardness?
500
Is a low area between hills and mountains, often where a river flows.
What is a valley?
500
Where would new soil form at the slowest rate: a. desert b. forest c. hillside d. marsh
What is a desert?