Rock Cycle
What are the three types of rocks?
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
What happens when water is exposed to temperatures below 32 degrees F?
crystallization
What are the two types of natural resources?
renewable and nonrenewable
Relative vs absolute dating (5 word limit)
guess vs exact age
Which of these forces keeps people from floating while on Earth?
gravity
What two characteristics do scientists use to help categorize rocks?
Composition, texture
Energy from the sun and gravity
Global warming is a result of _______
greenhouse gas emissions
Law of fossil succession suggests...
the same fossils found in different rock layers around the world are the same age
What part of the body is responsible for pumping blood?
Heart
Continuous process by which rocks change from one to another / what two things power process?
Rock cycle / sun, gravity, heat from Earth's crust
Where is most of Earth's water located? Where is most of Earth's freshwater located?
Oceans, icecaps and glaciers
When planting your flower beds, you want to find soil with...
high soil fertility
Law of superposition suggests...
older rock layers are on bottom and younger are on top
What is the shortest and longest day of the year?
Dec 21 / June 21
Two ways intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks are different
Intrusive: no crystals, cool above the surface, cool quickly / extrusive: crystals form, cool below the surface, cool slowly
Water vapor attaches to dust particles in the air to create water droplets suspended in the air; these collect together to form a cloud.
Destroying ecosystems, higher extinction rates, unstable severe weather, glaciers are melting, sea levels rising, dirty air, more wildfires, floods, agriculture decrease, etc.
Principle of lateral continuity...
layers at the same altitude are the same age
When is the coldest time of day?
How much sediment disappears as sedimentation during the rock cycle occurs? (law of conservation of matter) Answer in percentage %.
None! No rock sediment is ever created or destroyed during the rock cycle. There is the exact same amount of rock sediment on Earth today as there was millions of years ago.
What part of the water cycle are the following states of matter changes, in this order: liquid to gas, gas to liquid, solid to liquid, water falls from the sky
evaporation, condensation, melting, precipitation
Name 3 renewable and 3 nonrenewable resources
How old is Earth? This time is broken into many smaller categories, what is this called? What are the four components of this?
4.6 billion, geological time scale, eon era period epoch
Approximately how many full moons are there each year?
12, the moon cycles about once a month