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Potporri
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Geology, meteorology, oceanography, and astronomy.
What are the branches of earth science?
100
A naturally formed, inorganic solid with a crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
100
A solid mixture of crystals or one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
100
Any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use.
What is a natural resource?
100
The soft mineral of the hardness scale.
What is Talc?
200
The study of all physical things beyond earth.
What is astronomy?
200
Questions you ask to determine if something is a mineral.
What are does it have a crystalline structure, Is it a solid, Is it nonliving material, and Is it formed in nature?
200
The three main rock types.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
200
A natural resource that can be used and replaced over a short amount of time.
What is renewable resource?
200
Volcanologist
What is a scientist that studies volcanoes?
300
Ecology, geochemistry, environmental science, geography, and cartography
What are special branches of earth science?
300
Silicate and non-silicate minerals.
What are the two groups of minerals?
300
The layering of sediments in sedimentary rock.
What is stratification?
300
Coal, natural gas, and iron ore
What is nonrenewable resource?
300
The process in which one rock changes into another.
What is the rock cycle?
400
A community and its nonliving environment.
What is ecology?
400
The removal of minerals or other materials near the Earth’s surface.
What is surface mining?
400
Mostly changes due to pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
400
Fossil fuels exist in three ways (states of matter).
What is gas, liquid, and solid?
400
Recycling
What is one way to conserve resources?
500
Questions, hypothesis, experiment, analysis, conclusion and communicate results.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
500
A mineral with the hardness of 10.
What is a diamond?
500
Forms when magma or lava cools.
What is igneous rocks?
500
Removing them from the Earth destroys the environment, contributes to global warming, burning coals sulfur dioxide is released which causes acid rain, coal mining can pollute underground water used for drinking.
What are problems caused by fossil fuels?
500
Physical, mathematical and conceptual models.
What are scientific models?