Year 8 Earth Science Quiz

Which type of mining matches the description: deforestation, safest, cheapest, super pit?

Name the missing process

Which mining method would be suitable for mineral sands at the beach?

Name the missing process

Ore can be best describe as:

Volcanoes are important because:

Name the missing layer of Earth.

Name the missing element

Name the type of weathering

Where would you find plutonic rocks?

marble is a

Name A

Name the type of weathering

Which characteristic is common to metamorphic rocks?

Which type of rock is associated with this picture?

Limestone is a

Coal is an example of:

Name the missing element

Which statement about the crust is correct?

Which processes transforms magma into rock, rock into sand, & sand into sandstone.

Name the missing element

Name D

Name the type of weathering

Which rock would you assume would be the easiest to drill through?

A volcano that may erupt again at some time in the distant future is

Before lava reaches the surface, the molten material is called

Granite is a

What type of rock is Kata Tjuta?

This molecular structure would be associated with:

An extrusive rock such as the pumice shown: