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Rocks
Minerals
Weathering/ Erosion
Volcanoes
Water
100
The 3 Rock Families
What are Ingeous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary?
100
Naturally forming, inorganic, crystal structure and a specific chemical make up.
What is minerals?
100
The breakdown of rock.
What is weathering?
100
A vent through which rocks and debis erupt.
What is a volcano?
100
A model that descripes the movement of water through the reservoirs of the Earth system.
What is Hydrologic Cycle?
200
Properties depend on the rate of cooling and magma composition.
What is Igneous Rock?
200
The way a mineral breaks.
What is cleavage?
200
Breakdown through physical forces.
What is Mechanical Weathering
200
Molten rock under the earths surface.
What is magma?
200
Precipitation that drains over the land or in stream channels.
What is Surface runoff?
300
The settling of rock leading to layers.
What is bedding
300
Sharing and electron creating the strongest bond.
What is covalent bonding?
300
Sand, silt and clay
What are soils?
300
A large depression from a collapse due to an emptying magam chamber.
What is a caldera?
300
Unconsolidated sediment deposited by a stream.
What is alluvium?
400
Form when magma is crystalized underground.
What is Plutonic rocks?
400
Silicates, oxides, calcium compounds and accessory compound
What are Mineral families?
400
The seperation of a material into ions in solution by a solvent.
What is dissolution?
400
A large pluton that cuts across the layeringof rock into which it intrudes.
What is a batholith?
400
The total area from which water flows into a stream.
What is a drainage basin?
500
Remains of plants and animals in sediment.
What is biogenic sediment?
500
The simplest substances in basic structure.
What are elements?
500
The sequence of soil horizons from the surface down to the underlying bedrock.
What is Soil porfile?
500
The little pieces of rock in magma.
What are xenoliths?
500
A layer of impermeable rock.
What is an aquiclude?