Download Earths Crust review questions

1. What is your name? ____________________________
2. What is the Date? ______________________________
3. The Earth’s ___________ is a thin layer of rock that surrounds the Earth.
4. Label the layers of the Earth
5. What is the difference between Lava and Magma? ______________________
6. Why is the Earth’s core hot? __________________________________
7. Bonus: A scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that makes the Earth as well as the
processes that shape it is called a __________________________________
8. Why is the Earth’s core Solid? _______________________________
9. The Earth’s crust is made of many pieces that are called _________________ plates.
10. The name for these plates comes from Greek and means _______________________
11. What causes the plates to move? _____________________________
12. What is Pangea? __________________________________
13. What causes Earthquakes? ____________________________
14. Do Earthquakes happen in New Brunswick?
15. Earthquakes MOSTLY happen along ________________ lines
16. What are Seismic waves? _____________________________
17. Explain the Richter Scales Magnitudes
18. What is the highest an Earthquake ever measured on the Richter Scale?
19. What device measures Seismic waves?
20. Bonus: What is the Epicentre of an Earthquake?
21. What is a Tsunami and what causes them? (2pts) _______________________________
22. What is the Ring of Fire? ________________________________
23. Define the following terms:
a. Divergent boundary
b. Convergent Boundary
c. Transform boundary
24. What is a subduction zone? ______________________________________
25. Large Volcanoes mostly happen at ________________ boundaries between T. Plates
26. Name 2 good things about Volcanoes __________________________________
27. How many Volcanoes are there in New Brunswick?
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28. Name 1 volcano in NB ___________________________________
29. Bonus: How old is the Volcano in Northern NB?
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30. What is considered an Extinct Volcano?
31. What is the difference between an Extinct and a Dormant Volcano?
32. Bonus: Can an extinct volcano still erupt?
33. Mountains are formed in three ways. They are:
a. _______________________
b. ________________________
c. _______________________
34. How is a Fold mountain created?
35. Bonus: Can you name a famous fold mountain or mountain range?
36. Can you name a famous Volcano?
37. Bonus: Can you name a Volcano that has erupted recently (past few months)?
38. How does weathering affect rock?
39. How is weathering related to erosion?
40. Is weathering a fast or slow process?
41. What are the 2 main forms of rock weathering?
42. Can you name 2 examples of each type of weathering?
43. Describe how Abrasion weathers rock?
44. When granite is exposed at the surface of the Earth’s crust, it cracks and breaks in layers
like an onion (Exfoliation). Why? What happens to the rock to make it break? (2pts)
45. Bonus: Rain mixes with __________________ to form a weak acid, dissolving
___________ rock. (2pts)
46. What type of weathering is Hydrolysis? _________________________________
47. Bonus: When Iron in rocks is exposed to rain and oxygen, it
________________________
48. What is the difference between Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous rock?
______________________
49. Bonus: Why does the Gizmo describe the cooling and hardening of magma as
“Crystalizing”?
________________________________________________________________________
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50. Describe the process of soil turning into sediment?
51. How does Sediment turn into sedimentary rock?
52. How does rock recycle back into magma?(2pts)
________________________________________________________________________
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53. Bonus: What does Lithos mean in Greek? ___________________________________
54. What process creates Metamorphic rock?
55. Name a common type of Intrusive Igneous
rock.___________________________________
56. Bonus: Where is the Earth’s crust mostly Extrusive Igneous rock?
__________________________
57. Bonus: “The Giant’s Causeway” is a place in Northern Ireland where the crust is made
mostly of Basalt, forming strange octagonal shapes. What type of rock is Basalt?
_________________________________________________
58. Bonus: The “Canadian Shield” is a part of the Earth’s crust that is 2 Billion years old.
What type of rock is it made of? ____________________________________________
59. What is the difference between a Rock and a Mineral?
60. There are 7 main ways to identify different minerals. List as many as you can.
61. What does Lustre refer to?
62. What is the most unique of the 7 ways to identify minerals, or what is the most useful
information to identify a mineral?
63. Can minerals have more than one form or shape?
64. How do you measure the density of a mineral?
65. How is density written? If a mineral has a volume of 14 mL, and a mass of 36.4 g, it’s
density might be 2.6 __/___
66. What is Mohs hardness scale, and what is the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale?(2pts)
67. Draw a line to show how Extrusive Igneous rock turns into Intrusive Igneous rock (2pts)
68. Draw a line to show how Soil turns into Sedimentary Rock (2pts)
69. Draw and label a rock cycle, beginning and ending in the same place (5pts).
Use a different colour or line style for each question