What are inorganic, solid materials found in nature.
100
List 2 types of weathering discussed in class.
What is chemical and physical
100
The innermost part of the earth's interior and mostly composed of solid iron is called
What is the inner core
100
which type of mountain is built up from layers of lava and ash?
What is volcanic
200
Igneous rocks that cool on the inside of the volcano are?
What are intrusive rocks.
200
Define inorganic
What is they are usually not formed by plants or animals
200
The breaking down of the crust from wind, water, ice, and plants is defined as?
What is erosion
200
The crust and part of the mantle can be called?
What is the lithosphere
200
Which type of climate would you find fast chemical weathering taking place?
What is tropical
300
Igneous rocks that cool outside of the volcano are called?
What extrusive rocks
300
List 3 minerals
Answer will vary
300
When water gets into cracks in rock, pavement, or asphalt and freezes breaking it apart, this is called.
What is ice wedging
300
List the 3 types of plate movement.
What are convergent, divergent and transform
300
Identify the 2 softest minerals on the Mohs Hardness Scale
What are Talc and Gypsum
400
What are 2 intrusive igneous rocks?
What are: answers will vary
400
List 5 ways to classify minerals.
What are
color
streak
hardness
gravity
smell
taste
magnetism
cleavage
400
List 5 things that may cause physical weathering
What is water, wind, animals, gravity, humans, plant roots, erosion
400
What are formed by subduction? (when one plate slides under another plate, be specific!)
What are volcanoes
400
What are gems?
What are minerals that are rare and can be cut and polished, giving them a beautiful appearance.
500
Explain the reason you will not find fossils in Igneous rocks.
What is the lava and magma are to hot for anything to live within the volcano.
500
Name the scale used to rate minerals hardness.
What is Mohs Scale
500
define chemical and physical weathering.
What is chemical: occurs when the chemical composition of the rock changes.
physical: breaks rocks into smaller pieces without changing them chemically
500
Identify 2 mountain ranges formed from moving plates?
What are the Applachians, the Alps, and the Himalayans.
500
Explain how carbonic acid weathers rocks?
What is when water combines with oxygen to produce carbonic acid, this water evaporates into the rock and the acid starts to eat away the minerals.