Geology(Renewable Resources,Layers of Earth,Rock Types,Rock Cycle,Mineral Determination)

Question 1

Coal

Is it renewable?

Answer 1

No!

Question 2

Are photons a renewable resource?

Answer 2

YES!They come from sunlight which is determined renewable because it will continue to work for a large amount of time and works constantly during that time

Question 3

What is tidal energy?

Answer 3

It is energy that is generated from the natural action of the tide which pushes a turbine that generates electricity.

Question 4

What are the parts of a wind turbine and how do they function?

Answer 4

Rotors are pushed by wind ad the nacelle converts the movement into electricity.

Question 5

Define a renewable resource

Answer 5

A resource that will continue to function for a large period of time or indefinitely and can renew itself rapidly.

Question 6

What layer of the earth is liquid?

Answer 6

Outer core

Question 7

What is the hottest layer of the earth?

Answer 7

Inner core

Question 8

What is the densest layer of the earth?

Answer 8

Mantle

Question 9

What layer of the earth contains the transition zone?

Answer 9

Mantle

Question 10

What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?

Answer 10

Crust

Question 11

Why is the inner core solid but the outer core liquid?

Answer 11

Because of the immense pressure that the inner core receives exceeds the heat in the heat and pressure curve that determines the state of a solid liquid or gas

Question 12

What type of rock is formed when a volcano spews lava that cools on the surface of the earth?

Answer 12

An extrusive igneous rock

Question 13

What is the difference between extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks?

Answer 13

Intrusive igneous rocks cool below the ground as magma and extrusive igneous rocks cool above the surface after they have been deemed lava.

Question 14

Explain the process that creates a sedimentary rock

Answer 14

Little grains and molecules are weathered off the surface of an ordinary rock and carried away by agents of erosion such as snow ,water,wind and gravity and then taken to a place where they are compressed and compacted to form a sedimentary rock.

Question 15

What are the key triggers a rock needs to metamorphose

Answer 15

Heat and pressure

Question 16

What is a distinct feature of a extrusive igneous rock

Answer 16

Usually have little holes from the places where the bubbles were

Question 17

Why is color an unreliable way to distinguish minerals ?

Answer 17

Because certain rocks may occur in multiple colors and different rocks may be the same color

Question 18

How is hardness determined?

Answer 18

Using the mohs scale which determines hardness based on relative hardness to other substances

Question 19

What are the three other ways to identify minerals

Answer 19

cleavage(how a mineral fractures) lustre (how it shines earthy for not very shiny,vitreous for fairly metallic for very shiny) and density

Question 20

What is common in the crust?

Answer 20

Light Silicates

Question 21

Where would you find bridgemantite?

Answer 21

Lower Mantle

Question 22

What is a quality of all the layers?

Answer 22

The further down you go the density increases

Question 23

Where is ringwoodite commonly found?

Answer 23

Transition Zone

Question 24

What might you find in the upper mantle?

Answer 24

Olivine

Question 25

What can be found in the inner core?

Answer 25

Heavy metals and sulfides

Question 26

What can be found in the outer core?

Answer 26

No particular metal it is all liquid

Question 27

How would metals form the inner core reach the crust?

Answer 27

Initially those metals may rise through the outer core and find an opening in the mantle.These may be where tectonic plates have been smooched to make a volcano so that the sulfides etc. come out as igneous rocks