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Vocabulary
Astronomy
Rocks and Minerals
Changes to the Earth's Surface
100
The spin of the Earth on it's tilted axis.
What is the Earth's rotation?
100
This causes day and night.
What is the Earth's rotation?
100
The four mineral classification tests include
What is color, luster, hardness, streak?
100
The process in which sediments, soil, and rocks are dropped off and added to a landform or land mass.
What is deposition?
200
The movement of the Earth around the sun, completed annually.
What is the Earth's revolution.
200
This property of the Earth keeps heat trapped.
What is the atmosphere?
200
All rocks and minerals share this property.
What is solid?
200
An earthquake shaking the ground will cause this type of change to the Earth's surface.
What is rapid change?
300
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
300
This explains one year on Earth.
What is Earth revolves around the sun?
300
This test explains the way light interacts with the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
300
Which process would cause a sandbar to form when sand is moved from a beach and relocated to a new place?
What is erosion and deposition?
400
The process where rocks are worn away or broken down into smaller pieces by wind ,water, or plants.
What is weathering?
400
What explains why the stars seem to change position in the night sky?
What is Earth's rotation?
400
This test shows where minerals fall on Moh's Scale.
What is hardness?
400
What are some causes of rapid changes to the Earth's surface?
What is earthquakes, mud slides, tornados?
500
This process describes when weathered rocks are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, or wind.
What is erosion?
500
On a sunny day, at what time will your shadow be the shortest?
What is noon, or 12:00 p.m.?
500
This test classifies minerals based on what they look like in powdered form.
What is streak?
500
What are some causes of slow changes made to Earth's surface?
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?