2. 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 The Earth System Minerals Minerals Rocks Weathering & Soil Erosion & Deposition Final Jeopardy

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4. ANSWER: This is an organized group of parts that work together to form a whole.ANSWER: This is an organized group of parts that work together to form a whole. QUESTION: What is a system?QUESTION: What is a system?

5. ANSWER: The four parts of the Earth system in alphabetical order.ANSWER: The four parts of the Earth system in alphabetical order. QUESTION: What is the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?QUESTION: What is the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?

6. ANSWER: The three layers of the geosphere from thickest to thinnest.ANSWER: The three layers of the geosphere from thickest to thinnest. QUESTION: What are the mantle, core, and crust?QUESTION: What are the mantle, core, and crust?

7. ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water that makes up Earth’s hydrosphere.ANSWER: The percentage of fresh water that makes up Earth’s hydrosphere. QUESTION: What is 3 percent?QUESTION: What is 3 percent?

8. ANSWER: Earth is considered a closed system because this cannot enter or leave.ANSWER: Earth is considered a closed system because this cannot enter or leave. QUESTION: What is matter?QUESTION: What is matter?

9. ANSWER: The least reliable property for identifying a mineral.ANSWER: The least reliable property for identifying a mineral. QUESTION: What is color?QUESTION: What is color?

10. ANSWER: The mineral represented in the diagram.ANSWER: The mineral represented in the diagram. QUESTION: What is Halite?QUESTION: What is Halite? Chlorine Sodium

11. ANSWER: The four characteristics of all minerals.ANSWER: The four characteristics of all minerals. QUESTION: What is solid, formed in nature, definite chemical makeup, and crystal structure?QUESTION: What is solid, formed in nature, definite chemical makeup, and crystal structure?

12. ANSWER:ANSWER: The 2 most common rock-forming mineral groups and the elements that make up each. QUESTION:QUESTION: What are the silicates (Si & O) and the carbonates (C & O)?

13. ANSWER: The five methods of mineral formation within Earth and at the surface.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?QUESTION: What is water evaporating, organisms form shells or bones, hot water cools, molten rocks cools, heat and pressure cause changes?

14. ANSWER: The three types of rocks.ANSWER: The three types of rocks. QUESTION: What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?QUESTION: What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?

15. ANSWER: The arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands.ANSWER: The arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands. QUESTION: What is foliation?QUESTION: What is foliation?

16. ANSWER: The reason why the sedimentary rock limestone reacts with hydrochloric acid.ANSWER: The reason why the sedimentary rock limestone reacts with hydrochloric acid. QUESTION: What is it contains the mineral calcite or carbonate minerals?QUESTION: What is it contains the mineral calcite or carbonate minerals?

17. ANSWER: The type of rock formed at location A.ANSWER: The type of rock formed at location A. QUESTION:QUESTION: What is an intrusive igneous rock?

18. The type and name of a rock made of clay-sized particles. Hint: remember a rock made of sand- sized particles is called sandstoneANSWER: The type and name of a rock made of clay-sized particles. Hint: remember a rock made of sand- sized particles is called sandstone QUESTION: What is sedimentary and shale?

19. ANSWER: Two natural processes of chemical weathering. QUESTION: What is rusting and dissolving?

20. ANSWER: Four natural processes of mechanical weathering. QUESTION: What are ice wedging, exfoliation, plant root growth, and abrasion?

21. ANSWER: The three factors that influence the rate of weathering of rocks. QUESTION: What is surface area, composition, and climate?

22. ANSWER: Four soil properties that can be observed and measured. QUESTION: What are texture, color, pore space, and chemistry?

23. ANSWER: The three main activities of humans that impact soil resources. QUESTION: What are farming, mining, and construction and development?

24. ANSWER: The four causes of erosion. QUESTION: What are water, wind, ice, and gravity?

25. ANSWER: The two features identified by A and B in the picture. QUESTION: What is a meander and an oxbow lake?

26. ANSWER: Five examples of mass wasting. QUESTION: What are mudflows, rockfalls, rockslides, landslides, slump, and creep.

27. ANSWER: A basin that forms when the roof of a cave becomes so thin that it suddenly falls in. QUESTION: What is a sinkhole?

28. ANSWER: The 3 types of moraines and what they are made of. QUESTION: What are lateral, ground, and end moraines and till?

29. ANSWER: 4 of the 6 CRYSTAL groups that all minerals belong to. QUESTION: What is cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorombic, monoclinic, and triclinic?

30. 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?

31. ANSWER: The 4 metamorphic rocks that shale progressively turns into as it exposed to higher levels of pressure and heat. QUESTION: What are slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss?

32. ANSWER: The 2 processes by which glaciers move. QUESTION: What are flowing and sliding?