What two processes are consistently breaking away Earth's surface?
What is Weathering and Erosion?
100
This diagram shows how rocks are formed.
What is the rock cycle?
100
What type of rock cools and solidifies on the Earth's surface? What type of rock is made from loose minerals and rocks and create layers through compaction?
What is Igneous? What is sedimentary?
100
An instrument that measures vibrations is called?
What is a seismograph?
100
Name the layers of the Earth from inside to outside.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
200
The physical break up or disintegration of rocks. Example, gravity causes rocks to fall down a cliff and break apart.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
What 2 processes cause sediments to turn into sedimentary rock?
What is cementation and compaction
200
What are the 4 ways of identifying minerals?
What is hardness, streak, lustre, colour, cleavage and fracture.
200
What are the 3 different faults that cause earthquakes?
What is normal faults (divergent), reverse faults (convergent) and transform faults (shear force that causes slipping?
200
What theory states that the continents slowly moved apart?
What is continental drift?
300
____________________ weathering is the physical breakdown of rocks caused by living organisms such as plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. Ex. plant roots
What is biological?
300
What causes sedimentary rock to turn into metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
300
Minerals that break with a rough jagged edge? Minerals that break along a smooth plane?
What is fracture? What is cleavage?
300
What waves can only pass through solids? What waves can pass through solids, liquids and gases?
What are secondary waves? What are primary waves?
300
What process do plants use to remove carbon dioxide from the air?
What is respiration?
400
Break down of minerals and rocks through chemical reactions.
What is chemical weathering?
400
What are the building blocks of rocks?
What is minerals?
400
What is created when two continental plates slide together? What is created when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate?
What are mountains? What are volcanoes?
400
How is water pushed up through a plant? Two processes.
What is osmosis and transpiration.
500
When rocks break apart by water forming into ice in cracks in the rocks.
What is ice wedging?
500
What are the building blocks of minerals?
What are crystals?
500
What part of the tree carries water and nutrients around the plant? What part carries sugars? What is the main function of these two parts?
What is xylem? What is phloem? Transport?
500
When two plates collide and converge, one is shoved under the other. This area is called a...
What is a subduction zone?
500
What part of the tree is the growing part? Provides support?