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1st Nine Weeks Exam Study Guide
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Questions
1. When a mineral splits easily along flat surfaces
we say that the mineral has the property called
___.
2. Why was Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis rejected?
Answers: Can Be Found in Science Notebook
3. List the 5 distinct characteristics that all
minerals have.
4. Convection currents occur in which two layers
of earth?
5. The repeating pattern of a mineral’s particles
form a solid called a ____.
6. What type of rock is most likely the oldest and
youngest rock on Earth?
7. Why is the inner core a solid?
8. The term used to describe how light is reflected
from a mineral’s surface is called ____.
9. What is the name for the super-continent that
once existed?
10. On the hardness scale what number is the
softest and what number is the hardest?
11. What mineral represents number one and ten?
Softest Number:
Hardest Number:
Mineral One:
Mineral Ten:
12. The mineral gypsum has a hardness of 2. What
would you expect to happen if you rub an object
with a hardness of 4.5 against gypsum?
13. What 4 pieces of evidence support the idea that 1.
plate tectonics has caused the continents to
2.
move over time?
3.
4.
14. What happens to sediments during deposition?
15. According to scientists what is responsible for
the movement of the tectonic plates?
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16. What happens to sediments during
cementation?
17. How are igneous rocks formed?
18. How are metamorphic rocks formed?
19. What causes earth’s magnetic field?
20. Where does molten material erupt when seafloor spreading occurs?
21. What is earth’s crust made of?
22. List the layers of the earth from least dense to
most dense.
23. List the layers of the earth from coolest to
hottest.
24. What is the core made of?
25. What is the mantle made of?
26. Which layer of earth is a liquid?
27. What was Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of
continental drift?
28. List the four layers of earth in order starting
with the layer that is on the surface.
29. What do we call a series of processes on Earth’s
surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly
changes rocks from one kind to another?
30. What type of rock begins to form as a result of
erosion?
31. What type of rock will form from molten
material?
My test is on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016. It will count as 10% of my overall grade for the 1st Nine Weeks.
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