Rocks
What type of rocks has layers and fossils?
Sedimentary Rocks
What is the hardest mineral?
Diamonds
What is weathering?
Breaking down of rocks.
What natural resource takes a long time to replace and could run out?
Non-renewable resources.
What powers the water cycle?
Sun
What type of rocks would you find near mountains?
Metamorphic Rocks
What property is determined by a mineral's resistance to being scratched?
Hardness
What is physical erosion?
Soil and rocks being carried away by wind, water, ice.
Name 3 non-renewable resources
coal,oil,natural gas, petroleum, uranium
What part is when a gas changes to a liquid?
Condensation
What type of rocks in the rock cycle are limestone changing into marble?
Sedimentary Rocks to Metamorphic rocks
What property of minerals is determined by the way it reflects light?
Luster
What is primarily responsible for sand dunes forming?
Wind and sand
Name 4 renewable resources
Wind, water, plants, animals, sun
Average temperature, high clouds and high winds make what kind precipitation?
Hail
Which factor causes metamorphic rock to turn into igneous rock?
Melting and then cooling.
What property occurs when a mineral breaks along a smooth definite line?
Cleavage
What 4 ways are rocks weathered?
Root Wedging, ice wedging, water, wind, animals burrowing, humans
What are 3 ways that non-renewable resources harm the environment?
Air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, habitat and land destruction,water pollution, oil spills
What would a drought do to the water cycle?
Evaporation and precipitation decrease.
Which factor causes metamorphic rock to change into sedimentary rock?
Weathering and erosion
What are the 5 Factors that classify minerals?
Hardness, cleavage, streak, luster and color.
Name landforms that are formed by each:water, wind and ice.
Water-river, cliffs, V shaped valleys, sea stacks
Wind-dunes, desserts
Ice-U-shaped valleys
What are 4 types of renewable power?
Wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, biomass,
Name and describe 5 stages of water cycle
Evaporation-sun changes liquid to gas Transpiration-water pulled from plants, condensation-in clouds gas changes to liquid, precipitation-water falls back to ground from clouds, run-off-water returns to waterways