The Solid Earth

Mrs. G. Sullivan

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  1. What is a rock material made of sand and gravel and a binder?

    2. Your answer:
    concrete
    talc
    quartz
    copper

  2. The process of removing metal from ore is called _______________

    3. Your answer:
    streaking
    melting
    binding
    smelting

  3. What is the hardest mineral?

    4. Your answer:
    mica
    diamond
    quartz
    talc

  4. What is a solid element or compound from the Earth's crust that has a definite composition and crystal shape?

    5. Your answer:
    mineral
    rock
    ore
    pig iron

  5. What are minerals from which metals can be removed?

    6. Your answer:
    concrete
    placers
    ores
    irons

  6. What kind of luster does a mineral have that reflects light like polished metal?

    7. Your answer:
    color
    metallic
    nonmetallic
    steel

  7. The way light reflects from a surface of a mineral is

    8. Your answer:
    cleavage
    hardness
    streak
    luster

  8. The way in which a mineral splits along flat surfaces

    9. Your answer:
    streak
    hardness
    luster
    cleavage

  9. How easily a mineral can be scratched

    10. Your answer:
    luster
    streak
    hardness
    cleavage

  10. The color of the powder made when a mineral is scratched against a tile

    11. Your answer:
    cleavage
    luster
    hardness
    streak

  11. What is a mine usually close to the Earth's surface from which certain rocks are removed?

    12. Your answer:
    kiln
    sediment bed
    quarry
    mill

  12. The binding of sediments is called________.

    13. Your answer:
    weathering
    metamorphism
    melting
    cementation

  13. Small, rectangular blocks made from a mixture of clays and other sediments are called_________.

    14. Your answer:
    bricks
    slabs
    dimension stone
    clastic rocks

  14. Molten rock material that forms deep within Earth is called _____________.

    15. Your answer:
    lava
    sediment
    crushed stone
    magma

  15. Magma that reaches Earth's surface is called?

    16. Your answer:
    granite
    chemical rocks
    sediment
    lava

  16. What is the breaking up of rocks into sediments called?

    17. Your answer:
    weathering
    cementation
    compacting
    crystalizing

  17. The change from one rock type to another because of heat, pressure, or chemicals is called ______________

    18. Your answer:
    cementation
    bedding
    metamorphism
    compacting

  18. What are rocks that form at Earth's surface when sediments harden in rock?

    19. Your answer:
    igneous rock
    sedimentary rock
    metamorphic rock
    sediments

  19. What are bits of existing rocks, minerals, and organic materials?

    20. Your answer:
    sedimentary rock
    igneous rock
    metamorphic rock
    sediments

  20. What are rocks that form when hot, melted rock material cools and hardens?

    21. Your answer:
    sediments
    sedimentary rock
    igneous rock
    metamorphic

  21. What are rocks that form from existing rocks because of changes by heat, pressure, or chemiclas?

    22. Your answer:
    sediments
    igneous rock
    metamorphic rock
    sedimentary rock

  22. The wearing away of rock material is called

    23. Your answer:
    wind damage
    cementation
    weathering
    erosion

  23. What can help scientists tell the relative age of rocks?

    24. Your answer:
    an index fossil
    a model
    fault
    fold

  24. A bend in a rock layer is called

    25. Your answer:
    fold
    focus
    fault
    canyon

  25. What are the remains and traces of living things preserved in a rock?

    26. Your answer:
    elements
    fossils
    sediments
    absolute age

  26. A break in a rock along which movement has occurred is called

    27. Your answer:
    fold
    mantle
    fault
    wave

  27. What forms when forces deep within Earth push rock layers upward?

    28. Your answer:
    an earthquake
    normal fault
    a dome mountain
    a core

  28. Which layer of Earth is made up of solid rock, most of which is granite, gabbro, and basalt?

    29. Your answer:
    crust
    mantle
    inner core
    outer core

  29. Which layer of Earth is made of solid iron and nickel?

    30. Your answer:
    inner core
    outer core
    mantle
    crust

  30. Which layer of Earth is mostly solid rock with some properties of liquids?

    31. Your answer:
    inner core
    mantle
    crust
    outer core

  31. Which layer of the Earth is made of molten iron and nickel?

    32. Your answer:
    mantle
    outer core
    inner core
    crust

  32. Which of the following is not one of the three types of rocks.

    33. Your answer:
    igneous
    granite
    metamorphic
    sedimentary

  33. The most common sand in the world is quartz sand.

    34. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  34. Most sedimentary rocks are layered.

    35. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  35. Bricks are a type of sedimentary rock.

    36. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  36. Mineral grains are large in rocks formed from magma.

    37. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  37. Any kind of rock can be changed into another kind of rock.

    38. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  38. You can find fossils in igneous and metamorphic rocks.

    39. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  39. Earthquakes occur when there is movement along a fault.

    40. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  40. Rocks move through the rock cycle in one direction only.

    41. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  41. Most forces that bend rock layers are caused by Earth's moving plates.

    42. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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    43. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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    44. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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    45. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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