This is the dead plant and animal material in soil.
What is humus?
100
Which landform results from deposition: Arch, valley, delta, or canyon.
What is a delta?
100
This type of rock is formed when melted rock from deep under earth's surface comes to the surface and hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
100
A resource that can be used again.
What is a renewable resource?
100
What is abrasion?
When materials are rubbed or banged against each other.
200
3 different properties that best describe soil.
What are texture, amount of humus, size of rock particles, kinds of earth materials, and ability to retain water?
200
Abrasion is a form of : deposition, erosion, or weathering.
What is weathering?
200
Rocks are made up of one or more of these.
What are minerals?
200
A resource that can't be used again.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
200
Rock B scratches Rock C.
Rock C has a hardness of 1.
Rock A scratches Rock B.
Which rock has the highest hardness?
What is rock A?
300
When material settlers after erosion is called what
what is deposition?
300
Pieces of rock being moved by water or wind is an example of: erosion, deposition, or weathering.
What is erosion?
300
Which group of properties would you rely on most to help you identify a mineral?
*Luster, cleavage, mass
*Mass, color, and hardness
*Hardness, color, cleavage
*Hardness, color, cleavage
300
Give an example of a renewable resource?
(any example)
300
Abrasion, freezing, and tree roots are all examples of what type of weathering?
What is physical?
400
How are physical and chemical weathering different and the same?
Different: Chemical watering produces new materials, physical does not.
Same: They both break rocks into smaller pieces.
400
A crack in a rock fills with water and freezes is an example of: weathering, erosion, deposition.
What is weathering?
400
Give 4 examples of how landforms get changed rapidly.
What are earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and landslides
400
This is an example of a nonrenewable resource.
(Any example)
400
Caves are most likely to form from chemical weathering of which kind of rock? Granite, limestone, or basalt?
What is Limestone?
500
Soil is made of these materials.
What are pebbles, sand, gravel, clay, sand, air, and water?
500
This factor causes particles of earth material to settle sooner: water moving quickly, large amount of water, or large particle size.
What is large particle size?
500
These two things cause a rock to change into a metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
500
Name 3 renewable resources and 3 nonrenewable resources that we talked about in this investigation.
Renewable: Air, water, animals, tree
Nonrenewable: Minerals, coal, natural gas
500
*Name all of the tests you could perform to identify a mineral that we learned about.
*Describe how you would perform two of them.
*Which test do scientists rely on least?