9.2

Question 1

rocks are made out of minerals

Answer 1

minerals

Question 2

the out most layer of the earth

Answer 2

lithosphere

Question 3

a super hot liquid found in the middle of the earth

Answer 3

magma

Question 4

material broken down by wind and water

Answer 4

sediments

Question 5

elements found in the earths crust

Answer 5

native elements

Question 6

geometrically shaped substance made up of atoms

Answer 6

crystals

Question 7

appearance of a mineral caused by the way it reflects

Answer 7

lustre

Question 8

colors of a mineral as a fine powder

Answer 8

streak

Question 9

a measure of how difficult it is to scratch the surface of a solid mineral

Answer 9

hardness

Question 10

water that desoves rocks

Answer 10

Erovsion

Question 11

rocks made from moverment

Answer 11

Clastic

Question 12

chmical that have been moved and fromed in to cristals

Answer 12

Chemical

Question 13

formed by dead things

Answer 13

Organic

Question 14

are form by something that was liveing and now it is not

Answer 14

Fossils

Question 15

rocks that from from the cooling of lava

Answer 15

ignous rocks

Question 16

rocks that coll arbarve the eaths surface

Answer 16

exstrustie rocks

Question 17

a pale rock that forms when frothy lava cools in the air

Answer 17

pumice

Question 18

a dark, igneous rock formed from gassy lava that cools quickly

Answer 18

scoria

Question 19

a property of a material or substance that easily scratches another

Answer 19

abrasive

Question 20

a dark, igneous rock with small crystals formed by fast cooling of hot lava.

Answer 20

basolt

Question 21

a black, glassy rock that breaks into pieces with smooth shell-like surfaces

Answer 21

obseden

Question 22

igneous rock that forms when magma cools below the Earth’s surface

Answer 22

instutive rocks

Question 23

intrusive rock mass that measures more than 100 kilometres across

Answer 23

batholights

Question 24

a hard, igneous rock with different-coloured crystals large enough to see.

Answer 24

granite

Question 25

large bodies of ice that move down slopes and push boulders, rocks and gravel in front of them

Answer 25

glaciers

Question 26

deposit left by movement of a glacier

Answer 26

moraines

Question 27

a sedimentary rock with medium-sized grains. The sand grains are cemented together by silica, lime or other salts.

Answer 27

sandstone

Question 28

a fine-grained, sedimentary rock without layering

Answer 28

mudstone

Question 29

a fine-grained sedimentary rock formed in layers by the consolidation of clay

Answer 29

shale

Question 30

a sedimentary rock with a particle size between that of sandstone and mudstone

Answer 30

siltstone

Question 31

sedimentary rock containing large particles of various sizes cemented together

Answer 31

conglomerate

Question 32

a rock fromed by oceans dead organs

Answer 32

limestime

Question 33

a rock formed by dead plants and bodys bered under ground

Answer 33

coal

Question 34

a clcal that never ends

Answer 34

rock cyical

Question 35

rocks mined to obtain a metal or other chemical within them

Answer 35

mineral ores

Question 36

extraction of natural resources from the Earth

Answer 36

mining

Question 37

environmental

Answer 37

environmental impact statement

Question 38

environmental impact statement

Answer 38

study of the possible effects of a planned project on the environment

Question 39

rehabilitated

Answer 39

restored to its previous condition

Question 40

overburden

Answer 40

waste rock removed from below the topsoil. This rock is replaced when the area is restored.

Question 41

open-cut mining

Answer 41

mining that scours out soil and rocks on the surface of the land

Question 42

folding

Answer 42

the buckling of rocks. It is caused when rocks are under pressure from both sides.

Question 43

palaeontologists

Answer 43

a scientist who studies fossils

Question 44

relative age

Answer 44

the age of a rock compared with the age of another rock

Question 45

carnivores

Answer 45

animal that eats other animals

Question 46

scavengers

Answer 46

animals that eat dead plant and animal material

Question 47

mould

Answer 47

cavity in a rock that shows the shape of the hard parts of an organism; types of fungi found growing on the surface of foods

Question 48

trace fossils

Answer 48

fossils that provide evidence, such as footprints, that an organism was present when the rock was formed

Question 49

extinct

Answer 49

describes volcanoes that are no longer active. Extinct volcanoes have not erupted for thousands of years and show no sign of future eruption.