Minerals
Which mineral property describes how easily a mineral can be scratched?
Hardness
What are the three main types of rocks?
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
What is the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces?
Weathering
Which variable does the scientist change in an experiment?
Independent
Troposphere
Which property describes how light reflects off a mineral's surface.
Luster
Which type of rock is formed from magma or lava that has been cooled?
Igneous rock.
What is the movement of dirt/soil due to water called?
Erosion
Which variable is measured for DATA in an experiment?
Dependent variable
Weather
Color can vary depending on environmental factors, but streak color is consistent.
Which type of rock is most likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary rock.
Give an example of chemical weathering.
Acid rain dissolving rock
In an experiment changing wind speed and measuring sediment moves, which is the independent variable?
Wind speed
What is the average weather over a long period of time?
Climate
Which term do we use to describe how a mineral breaks along smooth, flat surfaces?
Cleavage.
Which type of rock is formed from heat and pressure?
Overtime weathering and erosion do what to Earth's surface?
Change the shape of land.
In an experiment changing rainfall and measuring erosion, this is the dependent variable.
Amount of erosion
What is the trapping of heat in Earth's atmosphere by gases like carbon dioxide called?
Greenhouse effect
What is Moh's scale of hardness?
A scale that ranges from 1-10 and describes how tough or hard a mineral is.
The slow cooling of magma underground creates which type of igneous rock?
Intrusive igneous rock
List the acronym that tells us the process of how most sedimentary rocks are formed.
WEDCC
On a graph, which axis usually shows the independent variable?
x - axis
What is the main gas that leads to climate change?
Carbon dioxide.