6th Grade Final Exam Part 2

Which of the following are not ways to determine a mineral’s type.

Where volcanoes will most likely form

A mechanical weathering process where water enters cracks in the rocks and freezes, it expands and that widens the crack

Which is LEAST likely to weather bedrock buried beneath layers of soil?

All of the organisms that live in an area are called

Oxidation combines the element __________________ with other elements or molecules

What natural disaster has little to no warning?

Through high temperature and pressure, this rock formed from sedimentary rock.

What kind of climate has the fastest weathering?

The ____________ is a region of hot, slow-flowing, solid rock.

What is it called when rock deforms and snaps back?

The color of a mineral in powdered form is the mineral’s ______________.

A strike-slip fault is a result of __________________ stress

The San Andreas fault is a location where tectonic plates move horizontally past each other.

When two plate boundaries are convergent, what landform is likely to form?

This rock is made of tiny crystals that formed quickly when molten rock cools at Earth’s surface.

How can sedimentary rock become metamorphic rock?

The theory that describes large-scale movements of the Earth’s lithosphere is called

A normal fault is a result of a type of stress known as

Which is an example of chemical weathering?

What is a hot spot?

This occurs when water, wind, ice, or temperature change break down rock into fragments

________ is the specific name describing the physical processes that naturally break rocks into smaller pieces

What is a vent?

Which of Earth’s layers is made mostly of iron and nickel?

Which is NOT organic matter?

Most of the earthquakes in Japan are a result of one plate sinking under another.

_____________________ is a mixture of weather rock, rock fragments, decayed organic matter, water and air.

The average weather of an area is called

What causes an earthquake?

___________________ is the process of changing once-living material into dark-colored organic matter.

The shape and steepness of the landscape is called

Where is the focus of an earthquake located?

What is the difference between magma and lava?

The way light bounces off a mineral’s surface is described by the mineral’s

The African Rift Valley is a location where plates are moving apart.

This rock is made up of the mineral calcite, and it is formed from the remains of organisms that lived in water.

What arer ways acid rain is formed?

A reverse fault is caused by a type of stress known as

Why is the location around the Pacific Ocean known as the Ring of Fire?

______________ describes the mechanical and chemical processes that change objects on Earth’s surface over time.

The ________________ is the outermost, rigid physical layer of Earth

What is a fault?

Each element is made up of only one kind of ____________________.

What would happen to the rock cycle if erosion did not occur?

The ______________ is the densest compositional layer and makes up one-third of Earth’s mass.

The remains of something that was once alive is called