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The Earth
System
Minerals
Rocks
Weathering &
Soil
Erosion &
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©Norman Herr, 2003
• ANSWER:
This is an organized group of parts
that work together to form a whole.
• QUESTION:
What is a system?
• ANSWER:
The four parts of the Earth system in
alphabetical order.
• QUESTION:
What is the atmosphere, biosphere,
geosphere, and hydrosphere?
• ANSWER:
The three layers of the geosphere from
densest to least dense.
• QUESTION:
What are the core, mantle and crust?
• ANSWER:
The percentage of fresh water that
makes up Earth’s hydrosphere.
• QUESTION:
What is 3 percent?
• ANSWER:
Earth is considered a closed system
because this cannot enter or leave.
• QUESTION:
What is matter?
• ANSWER:
The least reliable property for
identifying a mineral.
• QUESTION:
What is color?
• ANSWER:
The mineral represented in the diagram.
Chlorine
• QUESTION:
What is Halite?
Sodium
• ANSWER:
The four characteristics of all
minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is solid, formed in nature,
definite chemical makeup, and
crystal structure?
• ANSWER:
The 2 most common rock-forming
mineral groups and the elements that
make up each.
• QUESTION:
What are the silicates (Si & O) and the
carbonates (C & O)?
• ANSWER:
The five methods of mineral formation
within Earth and at the surface.
• QUESTION:
What is water evaporating, organisms form
shells or bones, hot water cools, molten
rocks cools, heat and pressure cause
changes?
• ANSWER:
The three types of rocks.
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary, igneous, and
metamorphic?
• ANSWER:
The arrangement of minerals in flat
or wavy parallel bands.
• QUESTION:
What is foliation?
• ANSWER:
The reason why the sedimentary rock
limestone reacts with hydrochloric acid.
• QUESTION:
What is it contains the mineral calcite or
carbonate minerals?
• ANSWER: The type of rock formed
at location A.
• QUESTION:
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
• ANSWER:
The type and name of a rock made of
clay-sized particles.
Hint: remember a rock made of sandsized particles is called sandstone 
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary and shale?
• ANSWER:
Two natural processes of chemical
weathering.
• QUESTION:
What is rusting and dissolving?
• ANSWER:
Four natural processes of
mechanical weathering.
• QUESTION:
What are ice wedging, exfoliation,
plant root growth, and abrasion?
• ANSWER:
The three factors that influence the
rate of weathering of rocks.
• QUESTION:
What is surface area, composition,
and climate?
• ANSWER:
Four soil properties that can be
observed and measured.
• QUESTION:
What are texture, color, pore space,
and chemistry?
• ANSWER:
The three main activities of humans
that impact soil resources.
• QUESTION:
What are farming, mining, and
construction and development?
• ANSWER:
The four causes of erosion.
• QUESTION:
What are water, wind, ice, and
gravity?
• ANSWER:
The two features identified by A and B in
the picture.
• QUESTION:
What is a meander and an oxbow lake?
• ANSWER:
Five examples of mass wasting.
• QUESTION:
What are mudflows, rockfalls,
rockslides, landslides, slump, and
creep.
• ANSWER:
A basin that forms when the roof of a
cave becomes so thin that it suddenly
falls in.
• QUESTION:
What is a sinkhole?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of moraines and what
they are made of.
• QUESTION:
What are lateral, ground, and end
moraines and till?
• ANSWER:
4 of the 6 CRYSTAL groups that all
minerals belong to.
• QUESTION:
What is cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal,
orthorombic, monoclinic, and triclinic?
• ANSWER:
8 of the 10 minerals found on Moh’s
hardness scale.
• QUESTION:
What are talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite,
apatite, feldspar, quartz, topaz,
corundum, and diamond?
• ANSWER:
The 4 metamorphic rocks that shale
progressively turns into as it is exposed to
higher levels of pressure and heat.
• QUESTION:
What are slate, phyllite, schist and
gneiss?
• ANSWER:
One of the two processes by which
glaciers move.
• QUESTION:
What are flowing and sliding?