Rock Cycle
Minerals
Weathering/Climate
Stratigraphy/Absolute Dating
CER
100
How do you make a metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
x3 if your whole team does the song/dance
100
What is the hardest mineral in the world?
Diamond
100
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering breaks it, erosion moves it
x3 if your whole group does the meme below (or a meme of your choice)
100
What is the difference between absolute and relative dating?
Absolute is exact, relative is comparing using words like older and younger.
x2 if you can beat me in rock paper scissors
100
What is erosion?
Movement of sediment from one place to another
200
What does weathering create (needed for sedimentary rock)
sediments
200
How do you test a minerals hardness? Give an example
Scratch it against something like a nail, penny or glass
x 2 if someone at your group can remember and sing the mineral song
200
What is the gas that is bad for the environment? Tell me the gas and then list some things that produce it
Carbon Dioxide (c02) - buring fossil fuels
x2 if you do any fortnite emote OR win a thumb wrestling match with a person of my choosing
200
Put these layers in order (oldest first)
E, B,C,D,A
X3 if one person at your group does the seal dance - with the music
200
What are some things that cause erosion?
Water, wind, etc.
x2 if you recreate the meme below for 3 seconds (whole team)
300
How do you make an igenous rock?
Cooling/crystallization of lava/magma
300
what does it mean I say a mineral is naturally occuring?
Made by earth
300
What is the greenhouse effect? Is it always bad? (think about gases on Earth and what they do with heat)
Gases trap heat on Earth - good to keep us warm, but bad when there are too many gases
300
Explain the relationship between parent and daughter isotopes
parent decays daughter grows
300
Look at the graph, why might rainfall and erosion be linked?
Rain/water is constantly moving and moving the sediments within it
400
A rock has holes in it, what type of rock is it?
Igneous
400
What does it mean when I say a mineral is an INORGANIC solid?
Not living
400
What color surfaces absorb heat? Which reflect it back into space? Give an example of each
Dark=absorbs (ocean/trees/etc.)
Light=reflects (ice)
400
True or false: all elements decay at the same rate/speed
false
400
Make a full sentence claim:
How does rainfall affect the rate of erosion on a bare hillside? Use the data from the graph to support your answer.
This graph shows the relationship between rainfall amount and soil erosion rate measured over 12 months at an experimental site.
More rainfall = more erosion
500
What are ALL the steps to making a sedimentary rock? (4 things)
Weathering erosion into sediment, then compaction and cementation
500
Based on Moh's hardness scale, if a mineral can scratch a penny at 3.5 but not a glass plate at 5.5, how hard is the mineral?
around 4
500
Why is sea ice important (must explain what it does with the sun's energy and why that is important)?
If reflects suns energy back into space - we need this so it does not stay trapped on earth and make us hotter
500
What is radioactive decay and how does it relate to half-lives?
Parent keeps decaying by 50% while daughter grows by 50%
500
Use the graph. Give three specific data samples that support that more rain=more erosion
Specific data from the graph:
• When rainfall was _____ mm, erosion was _____ kg/m²
• When rainfall was _____ mm, erosion was _____ kg/m²
• When rainfall was _____ mm, erosion was _____ kg/m²
any correct data accepted