Download Review Questions-APES geology and Soil

Review Questions-APES Geology and Soil
Review Questions Chapters/pages Tectonic plates and rock cycle pages 83-87,
soils pages 219-224, natural disasters chapter 16 especially tsunami pgs 330333, mining chapter 27. Remember to review your notes also!! Due before
the test as Bonus- please write answers on separate page or download from
blog and add spaces for answers.
Characteristics of Earth, Mining, Weathering notes
1) Define US Mining Law of 1872? How much profit is required in taxes? Cost
per acre of public land?
2) List the three main classes of rock--How are each part off the rock
cycle?
3) What type is found most often in the crust?
4) Give examples of the three types of rock.
5) Provide some basic characteristics about tectonic plates
6) Describe the three sections that make up the structure of the earth.
7) What causes tectonic plates to move?
8) What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive rock?
9) Describe what causes tsunamis.
10) Compare/Contrast Mechanical and Chemical Weathering
11) Define mineral and compare it with rock.
12) Which two large continental plates are moving apart? Which ocean is
getting larger because of this?
13) What are some of the effects of a volcanic eruption?
14) What are strategic metals and where are they found?
15) Describe a minimill, is it costly to operate?
16) Is recycling of raw materials increasing or decreasing?
17) When does subduction occur?
18) Where is the ring of fire? What causes this?
19) What are some basic characteristics of rocks?
20) Describe the components of a mineral. Give several examples.
21) The word "igneous" means what in latin?
22) List some causes of flooding?
23) Define landslide. What causes them?
24) What types of rock might contain metal ores?
25) Describe the difference between placer mining and strip mining.
26) When might subsidence occur?
27) Describe the process of heap leach extraction
28) Name a byproduct of ore smelting? What physical state does it come
in (i.e gas, solid, etc)?
29) Which uses more energy-producing steel from scrap metal or raw
ore?
30) Name a cause of mass wasting.
Soil & Weathering & Erosion ppt.
1) Name the horizons of soil and components of each
2) Define soil
3) Where does soil get its minerals?
4)Be able to use the soil triangle to determine the soil texture given
certain amounts of sand, silt, and clay- see lab for practice.
5) What is the benefit of sandy soil having spaces between its particles?
6) What component makes soil elastic and impermeable?
7) What types of living organisms are found in soil?
8) Define humus
9) List the soil types
10) Which soil type would be found in the grasslands of North America?
11) What is the result of salinization and acidification?
12) What causes waterlogging?
13) List the four main types of erosion and describe each