Midterm Review

Question 1

The only planet in the solar system known to harbor life and also called the living planet

Answer 1

Earth

Question 2

Earth is consist of percent% water components

Answer 2

70%

Question 3

Are also considered as terrestrial planets

Answer 3

Earth,mars,venus

Question 4

Is also called the ring planet

Answer 4

Saturn

Question 5

Is the 8th and farthest known planet from the sun in the solar system

Answer 5

Neptune

Question 6

Give the acronym of T.W.E.A.N

Answer 6

•temperature
•water
•energy
•nutrients

Question 7

Gaseous layer that serves as a protective blanket of the earth came from the word atmos meaning gas and spira meaning globe or ball

Answer 7

Atmosphere

Question 8

The water part of the earth also came from the greek word hydro means water

Answer 8

Hydrosphere

Question 9

Frozen water part of the earth system

Answer 9

Cryosphere

Question 10

Pertains to the solid part of the earth it came from the greek word geos meaning ground

Answer 10

Geosphere

Question 11

Loosed rocks and dust that sits a top a layer of bedrock

Answer 11

Regolith

Question 12

Came from the greek word bios means life this subsystem is composed of all living things such as animals humans microbes and plants

Answer 12

Biosphere

Question 13

Scientific term for living things

Answer 13

Biotic

Question 14

Scientific term for non living things

Answer 14

Abiotic

Question 15

The movement of nutrients and other elements between biotic and abiotic factors

Answer 15

Biogeochemical cycle

Question 16

These are building blocks of rocks

Answer 16

Minerals

Question 17

A person who studies the formation occurrence properties composition and classification of minerals

Answer 17

Mineralogist

Question 18

There are _______naturally occurring minerals in the present time

Answer 18

4000

Question 19

Up to _____Minerals are discovered each year

Answer 19

60-80

Question 20

A german mineralogist who created the hardness scale

Answer 20

Friedrich mohs

Question 21

Friedrich created the hardness scale

Answer 21

1812

Question 22

Is also known as rock salt

Answer 22

Halite

Question 23

Mohs hardness scale

Answer 23

-diamond 10
-corundum 9
-topaz 8
-quartz 7
-orthoclase 6
-apatite 5
-fluorite 4
-calcite 3
-gypsum 2
-talck 1

Question 24

Naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals

Answer 24

Rocks

Question 25

Scientific study of rocks

Answer 25

Petrology

Question 26

A person who study and classify rocks

Answer 26

Petrologist

Question 27

Formed from hardening and crystallization of magma or molten material that originates deep within the earth

Answer 27

Igneous rocks

Question 28

What is the composition of igneous rocks

Answer 28

Felsic Mafic Intermediate Ultramafic

Question 29

Igneous rocks that are light in colors

Answer 29

Felsic

Question 30

Dark colored igneous rocks

Answer 30

Mafic

Question 31

Refers to igneous rocks between mafic and felsic composition

Answer 31

Intermediate

Question 32

Denotes igneous rocks that composed chiefly of mafic mineral

Answer 32

Ultramafic

Question 33

Textured of igneous rocks are

Answer 33

Aphanistic Phaneritic Porphyritic Glassy Pyroclastic

Question 34

Fine grained rocks

Answer 34

Aphanistic

Question 35

Coarse grained rocks

Answer 35

Phaneritic

Question 36

Large crystals with small crystals

Answer 36

Porphyritic

Question 37

A rock that looks like colored glass with no visible mineral crystal

Answer 37

Glassy

Question 38

Forms from pre-existing rocks that have been transformed or altered into new rocks

Answer 38

Metamorphic rocks

Question 39

Process of transformation of one rock type into another

Answer 39

Metamorphism

Question 40

Rocks that from layers of tiny particles like sand, mud, shells piling up over a long time

Answer 40

Sedimentary rocks

Question 41

Is an example of organic type sedimentary rocks

Answer 41

Coal