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What is Science?
Matter: Elements, atoms, and isotopes
Rocks and The Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
What is meteorology?
100
Particles that make up and atom.
What is the proton, neutron, and electron?
100
The three types of rocks.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
100
Atoms with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
100
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
What is meteorology?
200
Earth’s four major spheres.
What is hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
200
A compound contains two or more _______________ chemically combined.
What are elements?
200
Energy that drives Earth’s rock cycle comes from Earth’s interior and the __________.
What is the sun?
200
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is the atomic number?
200
Earth science that examines the physical and biological changes that have occurred in Earth’s past.
What is historical geology?
300
Earth’s sphere that includes oceans, groundwater, lakes, and glaciers.
What is hydrosphere?
300
A process that causes dissolved substances to be left behind to form minerals after water in lakes or ponds evaporates.
What is precipitation?
300
The three groups of rocks are classified by _________________________________ .
What is how they formed?
300
A process in which rocks are physically and chemically broken down by water, air, and living things to produce sediment.
What is weathering?
300
The five processes that are responsible for the formation of sedimentary rocks.
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
400
The life-forms of the biosphere are located in the following spheres.
What is the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere?
400
The most abundant element in Earth’s continental crust (by weight).
What is oxygen?
400
Energy that drives the processes that form igneous and metamorphic rocks.
What is Earth's interior?
400
Weathered pieces of earth materials.
What is sediment?
400
Most metamorphic processes take place here.
What is a few kilometers below Earth's surface?
500
The three main parts of Earth’s geosphere.
What is the crust, mantle, and core?
500
The building blocks of minerals.
What are elements?
500
Metamorphic rock forms as a result of ___________ and _______________ .
What is heat and pressure?
500
Sediment that is compacted and cemented.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
If the atomic number of an element is 6 and its mass number is 14, the number of neutrons in the nucleus is __________ .
What is 8?