Weathering/soil
Soil found in the C horizon.
What is partially weathered parent material?
Name one of the characteristics that every mineral has.
What is a solid, definite chemical composition, naturally occurring, crystalline structure, or inorganic substance?
True/false: Coal is considered a rock even though it organic material.
What is true?
The broad, slightly dome-shaped volcanoes of Hawaii.
What are shield volcanoes?
An example of transform fault boundary: the Eastern Rift valley, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the San Andreas Fault, or the Mariana Arc.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
Each piece of broken rock has the same characteristics as the original rock.
Calcite is an example of this mineral group: silicates, carbonates, oxides, sulfate and sulfides, halides, or native elements.
What is carbonates?
An example of a renewable resource: a) iron; b) oil; c) aluminum; d) plants
What are plants?
Magma forms when solid rock in the crust and upper mantle: partially melts, crystallizes, vaporizes, or cools.
What is partially melts?
one of the interacting parts in a weathering system: a) weather satellite; b) clouds; c) tectonic plate; d) GPS unit
What is clouds?
One of the 3 types of mechanical weathering.
What is frost wedging, unloading, or biological activity?
A compound contains two or more: a) elements physically combined; b) simple substances; c) elements chemically combined; d) nuclei combined with electrons.
What is elements chemically combined?
Limestone is an example of: a clastic sedimentary rock, a conglomerate, a biochemical sedimentary rock, or breccia.
What is a biochemical sedimentary rock?
It is the largest intrusive igneous body.
What is a batholith?
Type of map that best shows differences in elevation.
What is a topographic map?
The driving force behind mass movements.
What is gravity?
Minerals are classified according to this.
What is composition?
3 main parts of the geosphere.
What is crust, mantle, and core?
Intraplate volcanic activity occurs here: a)oceanic plates diverge; b)mantle plumes rise toward the surface within a plate; c)hot magma descends into the mantle under a plate; d)oceanic and continental plates converge
What is magma plumes rise toward the surface within a plate?
At divergent plate boundaries in the ocean, magma rises and melts because of this.
What is a decrease in pressure?
One of the common types of soil.
What is pedalfer, pedocal, or laterite?
Name one of the major groups of minerals.
What is silicates, carbonates, oxides, sulfate/sulfides, halides, or native elements?
Order of processes responsible for the formation of sedimentary rocks: compaction, deposition, weathering, erosion, cementation
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation?
A common type of basaltic lava hardens, it forms aa, it has this surface
What is a rough, jagged surface?
Causes the thermal convection that drives plate motion.
What is difference in temperature and density?