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1. What is a factor/variable
that a scientist can change
during an experiment?
2. What type of
scientiststudies the solid
Earth?
Meteorologist
Geologist
Oceanographer
3. What does inorganic
mean?
4. The repeating pattern of a 5. What is the hardest
mineral’s particles forms a
known mineral?
solid called a ______.
6. The color of a mineral’s
powder is called its
_________.
7. Minerals that do NOT
split apart evenly have a
characteristic type of
___________.
Cleavage
Fracture
9. Magma that cools very
slowly deep beneath the
surface forms minerals with
what type of crystals?
Small
Large
8. The way a mineral
reflects light from its
surface is ________.
13. When all the grains in a
rock are large and easy to
see, the rock is described as
___________ grained.
14. How is igneous rock
formed?
15. Intrusive igneous rock is
formed from ___________.
16. What is the process in
17. What is a clastic
which dissolved minerals
rock formed from?
crystallize and glue particles
Organic material
of sediment together is
Rock fragments
compaction
cementation
18. Chalk formed from
skeletons of microscopic
living things in the ocean
forms what type of
sedimentary rock
19. Heat and pressure deep
beneath Earth’s surface
forms what kind of rock?
21. Processes on Earth’s
surface/interior that changes
rocks from one kind to
another is called
The_______ _______.
20. A metamorphic rock
that has grains arranged
in parallel layers is
described as _______
10. Although cement, brick, 11. Generally, a rock is
12. Texture is the size,
steel, and glass all come
made up of a mixture of shape, and pattern of the
from substances found in
_______ and other
rock’s __________.
Earth’s crust, they are not
___________.
classified as minerals
because they ___________
are organic
are not naturally occuring
29. When living things die
and their remains are buried
by sediments they become
a ____.
30. When age of a rock is
compared to the age of
another rock that is
_________ are.
31. With horizontal layers of
sedimentary rock, each layer
is older than the layer above
it and younger than the layer
below it – this is the Law of
______________
22. The layer of Earth made 23. List the Earth’s layers in 24. Heat is transferred
up largely of the rocks basalt
order starting at the
within a fluid by
and granite is the ______.
surface.
__________ _________.
25. What is the theory that
states the continents were
once joined together in a
single landmass.
26. In the process of seafloor spreading, where
does molten material
rise from the mantle and
erupt?
27. A collision between two
pieces of continental crust at
a converging boundary
produces a ________
Mountain range
Deep-ocean
28. The place where two
plates come together is
known as a __________
boundary
32. What type of stress
produces a reverse
fault?
33.The type of seismic
waves that arrive at the
surface first and compress
and expand the ground are
called _________ waves
34. Name the three parts of
an atom and their atomic
mass.
35. The Periodic Table
contains all known
________.
36. What is mass and what
tool do you use to measure
it?