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Rivers
Maps
Rocks and Minerals
Matter and Change
Mass Movement
100
What is the longest river in the US?
What is the Missouri River.
100
What is another name for 0° longitude?
What is fractional scale.
100
A mineral is a(n) __________ if it can be mined for profit.
What is an ore.
100
What makes a mineral a gem?
What are hydrogen ions.
100
What is a glacier?
What is a mass movement of snow and ice.
200
What is a bend in a river called?
What is a meander.
200
A __________ explains what the symbols of a map represent.
What is a legend.
200
A mineral's __________ is the color when it is powdered.
What is streak.
200
Which bond is formed when electrons are shared between atoms?
What is a covalent bond.
200
Glaciers move over older moraines and form the material into elongated landforms called __________.
What is a drumlin.
300
If materials are floating in the river, how is it being carried?
What is suspension.
300
A __________ projection has parallel lines of longitude and latitude.
What is Mercator.
300
What is caused by the presence of trace elements in a mineral?
What is color.
300
The number of protons in an atom's nucleus is the __________.
What is the atomic number.
300
The downslope movement of loose sediment is called
What is mass movement.
400
What is the beginning of a river called?
What is headwaters.
400
A __________ projection is made by projecting points and lines from a globe onto a piece of paper that touches the globe at one point.
What is gnomonic.
400
Which mineral group contains atoms bonded together as tetrahedrons?
What are silicates.
400
What determines the chemical behavior of an element?
What is the valance electrons.
400
What are scratches left in rock by a glacier called?
What are striations.
500
What do you call a river or stream flowing into a larger river.
What is a tributary.
500
What circles Earth between the north and south poles?
What is the equator.
500
What makes a mineral a gem?
What is its rarity and beauty.
500
What is a gas that is composed of positive ions and free electrons?
What is plasma.
500
What is an avalanche?
What is the downslope movement of snow.