Any natural substance, organism, or energy form that living things use is called a what?
What is a natural resource.
100
Name earth's four layers in order starting from the inside.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
200
What are the three general catagories Earth Science is divided into?
What is geology, oceanography, and meteorology.
200
How many types of minerals are there? Name them.
What is two: Silicate, and nonsilicate minerals.
200
An igneous rock that is less colored and less dense is called what?
What is Felsic
200
These are nonrenewanble energy resources that form in the earth's crust over millions of years from burried remains of once-living organisims.
What is fossil fuels.
200
What is a continental drift?
What is a theory in which its continents can drift apart from one another.
300
The following are all steps of what..:
-Ask a Question
-Form a Hypothesis
-Test the Hypothesis
-Analyze the Results
-Draw Conclusions
-Communicate Results
What is the Scientific Method?
300
What is a special property that applies to only a few minerals?
What is magnetism
300
Name the three ways igneous rock can melt.
What are 1. Increase in temperature. 2. Ralease of pressure. 3. Change in composition.
300
There is three classes of fossil fuels, what are they?
What is 1. liquid fossil fuels. 2. Gaseous fossil fuels.
3. Solid fossil fuels.
300
There are three types of tectonic plate boundaries, what are they?
What is convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.
400
What are the three types of Scientific Models?
Physical models, mathematical models, and conceptual models.
400
Cleavage and fracture are two ways mineral breaks; the way a mineral break is determined by what.?
What is the arrangement of its atom.
400
What do you call the layers formed in sedimentary rock?
What is strata.
400
This energy is used on water wheeling, it's inexpensive, produces little pollution, and is renewable. What type of energy is this?
What is hydroelectric energy.
400
What is the diffrence between a normal fault and a reverse fault.?
What is a normal fault moves in down relative to the footwall, and a reverse fault moves up relative to the footwall.
500
What is the SI unit for temperature?
Celsius (C) and kelvins (K)
500
Minerals are valuable because . . .
What is metals can be extracted from them and because some of them can be cut to form gems.
500
Metamorphsim that occurs when magma comes in contact with rock and "cooks" some of the minerals in the rock is called what?
What is contact metamorphism.
500
70% of people live of this reosourt it's also known as the most common release of energy, it accounts of 14% of the worlds total energy. What energy is this?
What is Burning of Biomass energy.
500
How are volcanic mountains formed?
What is when moten rock erupts onto the earth's surface.