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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?