Rocks and Minerals
Typically made up of more than one mineral.
What is a rock?
Most of Earth's water is stored in this reservoir.
What is ocean?
Daily temperature, precipitation, wind, etc.
What is weather?
The age of Earth.
4.5 or 4.6 billion years
The name of our galaxy.
Milky Way.
This type of rock forms in volcanoes or magma chambers.
What is igneous?
This type of stream forms deep channels in cohesive rock.
What is a meandering stream?
Trees absorbing CO2 is an example of CO2 _____________.
What is "sequestration"?
The period in which dinosaurs ruled.
What is the Mesozoic?
The layer of Earth that contains the crust and rigid outermost mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This common mineral is very abundant, hard, and has a chemical formula of Si02.
What is quartz?
The interconnectedness of pore space.
What is permeability?
The two most prevalent greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide and ....
What is methane?
This principle states that the oldest sedimentary layers are always at the bottom.
What is "superposition"?
The most prominent gas in our atmosphere.
Nitrogen
Aligned minerals in a metamorphic rock.
What is foliation?
Boulders rolling slowly along the bottom of a stream are called the ______ load.
What is "bed"?
Snow is very reflective and therefore has a high.....
What is "albedo"?
The Earth's core is made up primarily of nickel and .....
What is iron?
Mid-Ocean ridges form at....this plate boundary.
What is "divergent boundary"
A rock containing mostly dark-colored minerals.
What is mafic?
What is the pile of sediment left behind by a glacier called?
What is "morraine"?
If a glacier isn't experiencing equilibrium or accumulation it is experiencing....
What is "ablation"?
The Hawaiin islands were formed by THIS as tectonic plates move over it.
What is a "hot spot"?
Used to determine the direction of water flow in a stream on a topographic map.
What is "rule of V's"?