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Minerals
Rock types
Weathering and Erosion
Water
This-n-that
100
A naturally-occurring, inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure and chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
It is desgined to show how rocks can change from one type to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
It is the removal and carrying of material by mobile agents such as wind or water.
What is erosion?
100
It is the process where by liquid water is turned into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
Its the type of weathering we studied in our last lab.
What is mechanical (physical) weathering?
200
It is matter made of only one kind of atom.
What is an element?
200
They are the two processes that form metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
200
It is the physical breaking of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical (physical) weathering?
200
It water that has soaked in and collected under ground.
What is ground water?
200
It's the name given to the energy that holds atoms or molecules together.
What is a bond?
300
They are properties of matter that can be observed without changing the substance into something new.
What are physical properties?
300
They are the two processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rock.
What are compaction and cementation?
300
It is the substance that is responsible for most forms of chemical weathering?
What is water?
300
They are the two factors that determine rock or soil's ability to possess ground water and thus create a good aquifer.
What are porosity and permeability?
300
It is the first step in the formation of an igneous rock.
What is melting?
400
It is matter made of two or more different kinds of elements.
What is a compound?
400
It is the term given to the size, shape and distribution of mineral crystals inside a rock.
What is texture?
400
It is a combination of weathered rock and organic material.
What is soil?
400
It is a layer of rock or soil that stores ground water and allows it to move
What is an aquifer?
400
It's the one type of weathering that determines the rate of the other type of weathering.
What is mechanical weathering (mechanical speeds up chemical)?
500
Named after the person who created it, it is a test to measure the hardness of a mineral.
What is the Moh's Hardness Scale?
500
They are two features found mainly in sedimentary rocks (2 out of 4).
What are fossils, layers, mud cracks and/or ripple marks?
500
They are two factors that affect the weathering rate of rock (any 2).
What are time, temperature, moisture, rock size, rock hardness?
500
They are the two factors on which the amount of stream erosion depends.
What gradient and discharge?
500
soil texture is determined by the combination of these three materials.
What are sand, clay and silt?