Minerals and Rocks
The type of rock formed from lava on the surface of the earth
What are Extrusive rocks?
The main spheres/layers of earth
What are lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere?
The two types of Weathering
What are Physical and chemical weathering?
It is measured in what ____?
What is salinity?
It is measured in parts per thousand in one kilogram of seawater
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are the result of ___?
What is internal heating?
Earth's internal heat causes rock to rise, usually in liquid form, to the surface
What are sedimentary and igneous rock?
The shape of earth
What is oblate spheroid?
The different types of physical weathering
(please say at least three different weathering processes)
The main factor altering an areas temperature
What is Latitude?
The point at which where the rock breaks in an earthquake fault line
What is focus?
The two different types of Metamorphism
What are regional and contact metamorphism?
Isolines that connect equal points of elevation
What are contour lines?
The differences between a weather watch, warning, and advisory
Watch; hazardous weather could develop
Warning; hazardous weather has been seen
Advisory; hazardous weather is occurring nearby
Secondary waves traveling through earth, led us to discover what ____?
It led us to discover that the outer core of the earth is liquid
What are rocks that have little to no time to cool, and are smooth and glassy in texture, called?
What are Amorphous solids?
The location where the Prime Meridian passes connecting both poles
What is Greenwich, England?
The mineral that carbonic acid can completely dissolve
(found in limestone)
What is calcite?
This is actually how caverns are formed
The area in which a mass of air forms, is called ___?
What is a source region?
Where is the Ring of Fire located?
It is located along the pacific ocean edge and the coast of east Asia
Underground caves of magma
The equation for finding a gradient
The titles given to sediments based on their sizes
What would a sediment between 6.4 cm - 25.6 cm, be called?
What are boulders, cobbles, pebbles, sand, silt, clay?
What are cobbles?
Hydrolysis transforms feldspar into _____?
What are laccoliths?