Rocks, Minerals, Rock Cycle
These two factors make up both a rock and a mineral?
1.) Soil
2.) Naturally occurring
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces through wind, water, or ice.
Weathering
This is the parent material for soil
Bedrock
All biomes are affected the most by these two abiotic factors.
Temperature & Precipitation
Mutations in DNA
This substance is known as the parent material for ALL rocks.
Magma
Mechanical or Chemical Weathering?
Acid rain weathers down an old tombstone to the point it can easily be broken.
Chemical Weathering
This Horizon is the most important layer for life because it provides the most organic material
Horizon A -- Topsoil
This is the biome that we live in. Has 4 distinct seasons and leaves fall in the winter.
Temperate Deciduous Rainforest
This theory of evolution explains that due to a random chance event, the genetic diversity in a species could decrease.
Genetic Drift
This causes an igneous rock to directly become a metamorphic rock in the rock cycle.
intense heat and pressure (metamorphism)
Using the following terms,
Erosion, Weathering, & Deposition
Which is the correct order of steps to become a sedimentary rock?
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
Soil consists of three main particle types, what are they?
Clay, Silt, and Sand
This biome is the largest land biome on Earth. It has unique coniferous trees that do not lose their leaves in the winter.
Taiga
The Ecological Levels of Organization note this level as being one that consists of different species in a given area.
Inside the Earth (Magma) or on the Earth's surface (lava)?
How are Intrusive Igneous Rocks formed?
Inside the Earth from Magma.
Erosion or Deposition?
A river carries mud into the open ocean after large rainfall.
Erosion
This material is one of the 4 materials that make up soil. It's also known as "nutrients from dead plants & animals"
Humus
This biome has a unique layer called a "canopy" that blocks any excessive sunlight from reaching the floor due to the trees broad leaves.
Tropical Rainforest
This type of evolution is most beneficial to humans because it allows them to pick traits that they desire in a species.
Artificial Selection
This type of rock forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together over time.
Sedimentary Rocks
This affects the rate of weathering.
(I will accept any of the three answers)
1.) Rock composition
2.) Amount of exposure
3.) Climate
The different soil particles affect what the most in an environment?
Water retention (How much water can be absorbed)
These are the two main aquatic biomes.
(We look at this abiotic factor to help support aquatic plant and animal life)
Freshwater & Marine
(Salinity)
"In the desert, elf owls nest in abandoned woodpecker holes that can be found in giant cacti."
What type of symbiosis is this?
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism