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What best defines Earth Science?
It is the study of the Earth's structure, properties, processes, and four and a half billion years of biotic evolution.
What is Geology?
is the study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth. It includes the study of the processes that shape Earth.
What do the O, A, E, and B horizons together form?
Solum
What is geothermal energy?
b) Heat from Earth's interior used to heat buildings and generate electricity
What is the most common type of hydroelectric power plant?
b) Dam-based power plant
Geothermal energy is best found in areas with:
b) High thermal gradients
What is a potential drawback of geothermal energy?
b) It can be non-renewable if extraction rates exceed replenishment rates
What is ore?
is the study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth. It includes the study of the processes that shape Earth.
What portion of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
C) 70%
Order of how ores are formed.
Crystal settling, Hydrothermal processes, Pegmatization, Precipitation, Placer, Weathering & Groundwater Action.
What is Quartz used for?
primarily used in the manufacture of glass.
What is true about Gypsum?
used as retarder in Portland cement.
One is false about Calcite
is an important component of metallurgical products,
Which are steps to mitigate exploitation of minerals.
Responsible mining practices, Conservation, Recycling.
Country where Bauxite is used.
Jamaica
What ore is used for automobiles?
Hematite
Silver is used for?
Coins
The United States uses this ore often.
Silver
What is geothermal Energy?
A natural heat from the interior of the Earth that is converted to heat.
Are processes that are formed or occurring beneath the surface of the Earth.
Endogenic Process
How are magma formed?
Process by partial melting of earth’s lower crust
Which is NOT possible when melting occurs in the mantle.
Earth’s rotation is faster.
Which is True about Metamorphism
A process that leads to changes in mineral contents.
Types of Metamorphism:
Contact and Regional
What happens in Regional Metamorphism
A change in the rock happens in a larger area, a large-scale action of heat and pressure.
Agents of Metamorphism except one:
Density
Factors in affecting change of rocks:
Stress, Strain, Joints, Faults.
Types of Fault except one:
Slide slip Fault
If the wall moves down relative to the footwall, in a way you would normally
expect as a result of gravity. What kind of Fault is it?
Normal Fault
When the fault blocks with each other horizontally. What kind of Fault is it?
Strike slip Fault
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. What kind of Fault is it?
Reverse Fault
Fractures in rocks that show little or no movement at all.
Joints
The ability of a rock material to handle stress depends on the elasticity of the rocks.
Strain
The force that could create deformation in rocks in their shape and volume.
Stress
Two types of Weathering:
Chemical and Mechanical
What best defines rocks:
Naturally formed solid made up of one or more kinds of minerals.
Rocks that form when lava cools and becomes solid are?
Extrusive
Rocks that form when magma solidifies within the crust are?
Intrusive
The process of transporting the weathered material, eventually depositing it in new
location or environment.
Erosion
Rocks, grains of sand, and silt collide with one another when currents or waves carry
them along a stream or beach.
Abrasion
Water accumulates in a crack and then freezes, the ice expands.
Frost wedging
Rocks at Earth’s surface are exposed to daily and yearly
cycles of heating and cooling. What may happen to the rocks?
They expand when they are heated and contract when they cool.
After erosion what process happens next?
Deposition
What are the 3 main types of rocks?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
What best defines a Mineral?
A naturally occurring, inorganic crystalline solid element or compound composed of an ordered arrangement of atoms with a specific chemical composition.
If the minerals break in an uneven way what might have happened?
Fracture
A miner has mined 2 tons of Feldspar. What classification should it be sorted to?
Silicates
The wife’s ring is made up of a native elements. What mineral is it made of?
Graphite
When checking on the mineral in rock it is something that is least used.
Color
A miner has smelled a rotten egg in the mines. What mineral might these be?
Zinc Sulfide
My dish tasted a little bland. What mineral should I use to make it tastier?
Halite
The animals in the park are standing in what part of the Earth?
Lithosphere
What is planet Earth called sometimes?
The Blue Planet
It is the protective layer of the earth that protects us from the sun's radiation.
Ozone Layer
Which layer of the Atmosphere is the Ozone Layer located?
Stratosphere
Do dead organic matter count as part of the Biosphere?
Yes
While walking looking at the telescope you spotted our neighbor galaxy Andromeda, you wondered how old is our own galaxy “Milky Way”?
13.8 Billion
What was the main concern of SNT?
The angular momentum of the sun
According to SNT, what triggered the condensation of the interstellar gas and dust clouds?
Supernova Explosion
What happens to the gas and dust clouds after it collapses due to gravity?
It becomes a protostar
What does the secondary whirlpool motion of Vortex Theory explain?
The orbit of satellites
What happens to the debris from the collision in the Collision Theory?
It formed planets that rotate in the same direction as they revolve around the sun
What formed the sun and planets according to the Kant Laplace Theory?
The bulges in the collapsing cloud
What best defines Earth Science?
It is the study of the Earth's structure, properties, processes, and four and a half billion years of biotic evolution.
What is Geology?
is the study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth. It includes the study of the processes that shape Earth.
What do the O, A, E, and B horizons together form?
Solum
What is geothermal energy?
b) Heat from Earth's interior used to heat buildings and generate electricity
What is the most common type of hydroelectric power plant?
b) Dam-based power plant
Geothermal energy is best found in areas with:
b) High thermal gradients
What is a potential drawback of geothermal energy?
b) It can be non-renewable if extraction rates exceed replenishment rates
What is ore?
is the study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth. It includes the study of the processes that shape Earth.
What portion of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
C) 70%
Order of how ores are formed.
Crystal settling, Hydrothermal processes, Pegmatization, Precipitation, Placer, Weathering & Groundwater Action.
What is Quartz used for?
primarily used in the manufacture of glass.
What is true about Gypsum?
used as retarder in Portland cement.
One is false about Calcite
is an important component of metallurgical products,
Which are steps to mitigate exploitation of minerals.
Responsible mining practices, Conservation, Recycling.
Country where Bauxite is used.
Jamaica
What ore is used for automobiles?
Hematite
Silver is used for?
Coins
The United States uses this ore often.
Silver
What is geothermal Energy?
A natural heat from the interior of the Earth that is converted to heat.
Are processes that are formed or occurring beneath the surface of the Earth.
Endogenic Process
How are magma formed?
Process by partial melting of earth’s lower crust
Which is NOT possible when melting occurs in the mantle.
Earth’s rotation is faster.
Which is True about Metamorphism
A process that leads to changes in mineral contents.
Types of Metamorphism:
Contact and Regional
What happens in Regional Metamorphism
A change in the rock happens in a larger area, a large-scale action of heat and pressure.
Agents of Metamorphism except one:
Density
Factors in affecting change of rocks:
Stress, Strain, Joints, Faults.
Types of Fault except one:
Slide slip Fault
If the wall moves down relative to the footwall, in a way you would normally
expect as a result of gravity. What kind of Fault is it?
Normal Fault
When the fault blocks with each other horizontally. What kind of Fault is it?
Strike slip Fault
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. What kind of Fault is it?
Reverse Fault
Fractures in rocks that show little or no movement at all.
Joints
The ability of a rock material to handle stress depends on the elasticity of the rocks.
Strain
The force that could create deformation in rocks in their shape and volume.
Stress
Two types of Weathering:
Chemical and Mechanical
What best defines rocks:
Naturally formed solid made up of one or more kinds of minerals.
Rocks that form when lava cools and becomes solid are?
Extrusive
Rocks that form when magma solidifies within the crust are?
Intrusive
The process of transporting the weathered material, eventually depositing it in new
location or environment.
Erosion
Rocks, grains of sand, and silt collide with one another when currents or waves carry
them along a stream or beach.
Abrasion
Water accumulates in a crack and then freezes, the ice expands.
Frost wedging
Rocks at Earth’s surface are exposed to daily and yearly
cycles of heating and cooling. What may happen to the rocks?
They expand when they are heated and contract when they cool.
After erosion what process happens next?
Deposition
What are the 3 main types of rocks?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
What best defines a Mineral?
A naturally occurring, inorganic crystalline solid element or compound composed of an ordered arrangement of atoms with a specific chemical composition.
If the minerals break in an uneven way what might have happened?
Fracture
A miner has mined 2 tons of Feldspar. What classification should it be sorted to?
Silicates
The wife’s ring is made up of a native elements. What mineral is it made of?
Graphite
When checking on the mineral in rock it is something that is least used.
Color
A miner has smelled a rotten egg in the mines. What mineral might these be?
Zinc Sulfide
My dish tasted a little bland. What mineral should I use to make it tastier?
Halite
The animals in the park are standing in what part of the Earth?
Lithosphere
What is planet Earth called sometimes?
The Blue Planet
It is the protective layer of the earth that protects us from the sun's radiation.
Ozone Layer
Which layer of the Atmosphere is the Ozone Layer located?
Stratosphere
Do dead organic matter count as part of the Biosphere?
Yes
While walking looking at the telescope you spotted our neighbor galaxy Andromeda, you wondered how old is our own galaxy “Milky Way”?
13.8 Billion
What was the main concern of SNT?
The angular momentum of the sun
According to SNT, what triggered the condensation of the interstellar gas and dust clouds?
Supernova Explosion
What happens to the gas and dust clouds after it collapses due to gravity?
It becomes a protostar
What does the secondary whirlpool motion of Vortex Theory explain?
The orbit of satellites
What happens to the debris from the collision in the Collision Theory?
It formed planets that rotate in the same direction as they revolve around the sun
What formed the sun and planets according to the Kant Laplace Theory?
The bulges in the collapsing cloud
