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Is color a bad or good way of identifying a mineral?
Color is a bad way
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Igneous rock is formed from cooling of...
Magma
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What layer do we live on?
We live on the layer called crust.
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Alfred Wegener
Who found the theory of continental drift?
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What scale do you use to measure hardness?
Mohs hardness scale.
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What process makes sediment?
Weathering and erosion
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Mantle
What is the layer below the crust?
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Pangea
What was the super continent called?
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What are the 4 characteristics that all minerals share?
- non living
- made in nature - crystalline structure - solid |
What two things are needed to make metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
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Lithosphere
The tectonic plates are the _____ layer
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Mid ocean ridge
What caused the continental drift?
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What is talc on the hardness scale?
Talc- 1
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What are all the types of rocks?
- Sedimentary
- Metamorphic - igneous |
The layers of the earth
LAMOI stands for
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What is crystalline structure?
When atoms and molecules are arranges in a pattern.
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What are all the processes?
- cooling
- melting - heat and pressure - weathering and erosion - compaction and cementation |
-lithosphere
-asthenosphere -mesosphere -outer core -inner core
Name the layers in order (LAMOI)
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Once sit was near the equator where the climate was different.
How was Antarctica able to hold plans?
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