Soil
Weathering
Erosion/Deposition
Minerals
Rocks
100
What is the topmost layer of soil that is made up of a bunch of organic remains?
Humus or Horizon O
100
What is the breaking down of a rock
Weathering
100
What is deposition?
When sediments are dropped are being eroded.
100
What are the six physical properties of minerals?
Color, Hardness, Luster, Streak, Cleavage, and Fracture.
100
The process that describes how rocks change
What is the rock cycle?
200
What is also known as the bedrock?
The parent material
200
What type of weathering occurs when the rock is physically broken down?
Mechanical weathering
200
The transportation of rock, soil, and minerals from one place to another
What is erosion?
200
Which property is the least useful to test to identify minerals?
Color
200
What is the full process on how a sedimentary rock is formed?
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation
300
The top layer of soil is ___________ (lighter/darker) and will have ____________ (smaller/larger) particles.
darker; smaller
300
What type of mechanical weathering is caused by the growth of trees?
Root Weathering?
300
What is the most common agent of erosion at the very tops of mountains such as Mt. Everest.
Ice/Glaciers
300
What is a diamond most known for?
Hardest mineral
300
What type of rock is formed when magma cools above earth surface?
Extrusive Igneous Rock
400
Which layer contains the majority of the bacteria, fungi, worms, and other organic matter?
Layer X because it is the topmost layer of soil
400
What type of weathering occurs if a statue turns green over time?
Chemical Weathering
400
These most commonly help prevent the loss of topsoil.
What are plants?
400
What type of structure does a mineral have?
Crystal or Crystalline
400
Gneiss is a rock that has layers from the high temperature and high pressure that is formed beneath the Earth's surface.
Metamorphic Rock.
500
Soil is a combination of rocks that have been weathered to small pieces and organic matter. Select two examples of chemical weathering that break up big rocks into smaller pieces for soil
A - acid rain causes cracks in large rocks
B - wind blasts sand at bigger rocks
C - a mole breaks up small rocks as it digs
D - plants roots widen cracks in rocks
E - a waterfall dissolves small pieces of mineral
F - an earthquake breaks up large rocks
A. and D.
500
What happens when iron in a rock begins to oxidize?
What is rusting?
500
Where is a common location where deposition occurs?
Rivers or beaches
500
Why would a diamond be a great construction tool for cutting?
It has the highest hardness and only another diamond can scratch it.
500
What are two ways that rocks are different from minerals?
Rocks contain fossils.
Rocks are made up of minerals