2nd Quarter Earth Science Review

How much of the earth’s water is located in the oceans?

What property of a mineral describes how it reflects light?

What type of rock with small crystals forms when lava cools quickly outside of the earth’s crust?

Plants and water working on a rock to break it into smaller pieces are examples of ______________.

This view that the earth was formed by the same geological processes working on the earth for billions of years?

Meteorites are:

Steno’s principle of lateral continuity states that _________.

Catastrophism is the idea that:

A fossil that produces a silhouette of an organism is called a(n)

Acid rain and the acid released through the roots of lichen on a rock to break it into smaller pieces are examples of

This view claims a catastrophic flood formed many of the features on earth that we see today thousands of years old

The smallest division of time on the Old Earth geological timeline is called a(n):

What property of a mineral can be tested by rubbing a rock on an unglazed, ceramic tile and observing the residue?

A fossil formed so that we see an impression of what the organism looked like is called a(n)

Steno’s principle of superposition states that _______.

Steno’s principles of cross-cutting relationships states that ________.

A gap in the rock record created from sediment that has been eroded or not laid down for a period of time is called

A metamorphic rock is:

According to the Old Earth view, the Precambrian Eon is about _______ of Earth’s history.

The definition of condensation is:

Builders need to be aware of the depth at which the ground is always saturated with water, otherwise known as _______.

Evaporation is best described as:

Which of the choices below best describes an sedimentary rock?

The rock cycle is _____________.

The scale used to compare the hardness of one mineral to another is the __________.

When you use different objects to try to see how resistant a mineral is to being scratched, you are testing its _______.

A fossil that was formed when an organism was completely preserved in ice or amber is called a(n)

The movement of sediment from one place to another is called

Precipitation happens when ___________.

When we refer to rock strata, we are talking about

A fossil formed when minerals replace the organic, once-living material that’s there is called a(n)

What type of rock with large crystals forms when magma cools slowly inside the earth?

The property of a mineral that says there is no definite pattern in the way the mineral breaks is __________.

If an igneous or metamorphic rock is going to be able to become a sedimentary rock, they have to be exposed to

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an index fossil?

When water moves through the process of changing states in evaporation, condensation, & precipitation, we call this the

How much of the earth’s water is freshwater?

Sediment is evidence that a larger rock has been broken down into smaller pieces, this is called:

The theory of uniformitarianism claims

For a sedimentary or metamorphic rock to change into an igneous rock, it must undergo

Steno’s principle of original horizontality states that ___________.

Which of the choices below best describes an igneous rock?

The Young Earth and Old Earth models are two ways people view evidence of Earth’s history, so they have different _____

What is the process of breaking rocks down into sediment through wind, water, ice, and/or plants called?

Transpiration occurs when ___________.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of minerals?