Midterm 8th

Question 1

What is breaking on irregular surfaces

Answer 1

Fracture

Question 2

What is a landslide

Answer 2

Rapid downhill movement of rock

Question 3

What is breaking down of rock

Answer 3

Weathering

Question 4

What is organic material that is replaced with rock

Answer 4

Petrifaction

Question 5

What is a substances ability to be broken by a hammer

Answer 5

Malleability

Question 6

P waves

Answer 6

Fastest seismic waves

Question 7

What is An ancient land mass of crystalline rock

Answer 7

Shield

Question 8

What is rock with visible lines on planes

Answer 8

Foliated structure

Question 9

What is putty upper mantle

Answer 9

Asthenosphere

Question 10

What is mantle

Answer 10

Bottom of crust to outer core

Question 11

What is sedimentary rock and something about wind or ice

Answer 11

Clastic rock

Question 12

Naturally occurring substance?

Answer 12

Mineral

Question 13

What is an ore

Answer 13

Naturally occurring rock from metal that is recovered

Question 14

What is sand or rock into sandstone question

Answer 14

Lithification

Question 15

How is igneous rock formed

Answer 15

When magma cools and hardens under the earth surface

Question 16

T or f Dry land is more effected than wetland

Answer 16

T

Question 17

T or f most minerals are carbonents

Answer 17

False it’s silicate

Question 18

True or false to ore metal question

Answer 18

True

Question 19

False or true All organisms become fossils question

Answer 19

False bird will become mOre of a fossil than a worm bc of bones

Question 20

What sit he difference between a. Rock and mineral

Answer 20

Mineral can in,y have one atom and crystalline structure but rock is hard and has multiple atoms

Question 21

Soil is made of _____ ______, organic matter ,_____, gases

Answer 21

Rock particles

Water

Question 22

How is pore space important

Answer 22

Determines how mucha or and water can get into soil

Question 23

Where is there erosion in ur community

How can u prevent it

Answer 23

Rivers

Form natural places for water to drain

Question 24

How do geologists determine age of the earth

Answer 24

Law of superposition

Question 25

How fad into the earth have scientist dug

Answer 25

15 kilometer

Question 26

What is slow mass wasting process

Answer 26

Soil creep

Question 27

Name 3 soil types smallest to largest pore space

Answer 27

Clay, silt, then sand

Question 28

What causes differences in soil composition

Answer 28

Climate

Question 29

What are the two most abundant elements in the earths crust

Answer 29

Silicon and oxygen

Question 30

What are less common properties of minerals that geologists use to help in mineral identification (3)

Answer 30

Flexibility smell and taste

Question 31

Limestone / cave question =

Answer 31

Carbonation

Question 32

What are ways we can be better stewards of Gods earth

Answer 32

Responsible product use, panting vegetation, and reducing acid rain

Question 33

What’re three minerals u commonly come I to contact with? Where ?

Answer 33

Gold silver and bronze in Jewlerry

Question 34

How would a climate change affect North America

Answer 34

Increase = less ice wedging and melting ice causing higher sea levels

Question 35

Of you had to do am experiment to test both chemical and mechanical weathering what would it be

Answer 35

Chemical = pour acid rain on rocks and see how it reacts
Mechanical = put rock in extreme climates and see how if reacts

Question 36

What is breaking on parallel surfaces

Answer 36

Cleavage