Earth Flashcards
What is a lithosphere
The solid part of the earth ( crust and upper mantle)
What’s the difference between a rock and a mineral?
A rock is usually made of 2 or more minerals, a mineral is a solid, natural homogenous substance
What rock is formed from fragments due to erosion
Sedimentary
What rock is formed from heat and pressure
Metamorphic
What rock is formed from cooling and solidification of magma
Igneous
What are the three types of igneous rock
Intrusive, extrusive, porphyritic
Which type of igneous rock have both big and small crystals
Porphyritic
Which igneous rock has large crystals
Intrusive
Which igneous rock has small crystals
Extrusive
Which igneous rock has a slow cooling rate
Intrusive
Which igneous rock has a fast cooling rate
Extrusive
Which igneous rock has a slow and fast cooling rate
Porphyritic
Which rock could have fossils
Sedimentary
What type of rock is formed from the transformation of other rocks
Metamorphic
Is colour of streak more important or colour of rock
Colour of streak
What’s the hardest mineral
Diamond
Give a definition of soil
A loose layer on top of earths crust/layer found on top of parent rock
4 types of soil from largest to smallest
Humus-bearing, sandy, loamy, clay
The surface layer which contains a lot of organic matter is called
The parent rock
Give a definition of energy
The capacity to produce change
2 main factors to produce wind in earth
Earths rotation and pressure differences between two masses
Hot air __ because it is ____
Rises
Lighter
Air moves from ____a to a_____zone
High pressure
Low pressure
3 examples of renewable energy
Definition
An energy source that naturally replenish
Solar, hydraulic, wind
What’s geothermal energy
Extraction of grounds internal heat
What’s non renewable energy
3 examples
They can run out and not be replaced
, fossil fuel, nuclear
What’s biomass
Waste reclamation
What are the fossil fuels
Coal, oil, natural gas
What’s the scale called
Mohs hardness scale
