naturally occurring inorganic substance with characteristic physical and chemical properties.
What is a mineral?
100
natural shaking of solid earth caused by movement along faults movement released as seismic waves.
What is an earthquake?
100
Frost action, plants roots pry rocks apart, and abrasion.
What is physical (mechanical) weathering?
200
Instruments that extend your senses.
What is a observation?
200
water (oceans, lakes, rivers)
What is hydrosphere?
200
Hardness,luster,Cleavage etc.
What is Properties of Minerals?
200
Fastest waves, first to arrive, vibrate particles in same direction as energy travels, and travels through solid, liquids, and gases.
What is p-waves?
200
Oxidation, Hydration, and carbonation.
What is chemical weathering?
300
Grouping objects by similar characteristics,to make observations more useful.
What is classification?
300
Air (layer of gases around the Earth)
What is Atmosphere?
300
Extrusive or volcanic-solidifies on the surface, quickly to form.
What is igneous rock?
300
slower arrive second, particles vibrate at right angles to the direction of energy movement, and only travels through solids.
What is s-waves?
300
Landslides, and mudslides.
What is gravity erosion?
400
What happens as temperature and the object expands?
What is Density?
400
Change in value / distance
What is gradient?
400
Formed from loose particles or sediments joined together to form rock.
What is sedimentary rocks?
400
need minimum of 3 seismic stations, and draw circle around each using distance to epicenter as radius.
What is locating an epicenter?
400
sorted vertically (biggest at bottom, smallest at the top)
What is graded bedding?
500
A change that repeats and is predictable.
What is cyclic change?
500
slightly flattened at the poles,and bulging at the equator
What is oblate sphere?
500
Rocks that are changed by high heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rocks?
500
Find difference in times of p and s waves, mark difference on piece of paper using vertical axis, slide along between graphs until it just fits, and follow down and read distance.
What is distance to an epicenter?
500
Forms u-shaped valley, can carry all size sediments, glacial erosion often causes parallel scratches on rock, and moraine.