Minerals
Rocks
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Atmosphere
Oceans & Climate Change
100
Name 3 properties of minerals.
What are color, luster, streak, cleavage, and hardness?
100
The three types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
A surface along which rocks move when they are stressed to their breaking point.
What is a fault?
100
What happens when air rises, expands and cools down?
What is clouds form?
100
What causes the high rate of salinity in the top layers of the ocean?
What is evaporation at the surface is higher?
200
The process of mineral formation from magma is called ____
What is crystallization?
200
A rock that forms when magma hardens above ground on Earth’s surface is called an ____.
What is an extrusive igneous rock?
200
The three types of volcanoes.
What are shield, composite (strato), and cinder cone volcanoes?
200
A measure of the reflectivity of a cloud.
What is albedo?
200
Sea water's density is determined by its ________ and ________.
What is salinity and temperature?
300
The color of the powdered form of a mineral is called ____
What is streak?
300
A conglomerate is a rock that forms as a result of ____.
What is sedimentation, compaction, and cementation?
300
What order do the three types of seismic waves arrive?
What is P waves, S waves, and Surface L waves?
300
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The natural heating of the earth that takes place when certain heat-absorbing gases trap infrared radiation coming from earth.
300
What is true about an ocean current that is moving toward the equator?
It is cold.
400
What is the density of a mineral with a mass of 65g and a volume of 5cm
What is 13 g/cm
400
As the rate of cooling of igneous rocks increases, the size of the crystals that form ____.
What is decreases?
400
How many seismic stations are needed, minimum, to find the location of an earthquake?
What is 3?
400
Half Moon Bay has a nice breeze from the ocean at what time of day?
In the afternoon
400
What historic event marks a large difference in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
The difference between fracture and cleavage of a mineral.
Cleavage is the property of a mineral that allows it to break smoothly along specific internal planes when the mineral is struck sharply with a hammer. Fracture is the property of a mineral breaking in a more or less random pattern with no smooth planar surfaces.
500
What are the three key factors in metamorphism?
What are heat, pressure, and extremely hot liquids (like magma)?
500
__________ is smooth, fast-moving lava. _________ is rough, slow-moving lava.
What are pahoehoe and Aa?
500
The Coriolis effect causes wind and ocean currents to _______ ________ in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is curve right?
500
A circulating ocean surface current that occurs due to the coriolis effect.
What is a gyre?
600
What is the order in which these features formed, from oldest to youngest?
What is: A, B, K, X, C, D, E, F, G, H, M, Y, I, J, L?
600
What are possible consequences of global warming?
What are: stronger and more frequent storms, more intense and frequent droughts, rising sea levels, more frequent disease?