What area of deposition forms from waves moving sand to create a new landform that is in the ocean parallel to the coast?
Barrier Island
What are the agents (causes) of erosion?
Wind, water, gravity and ice
What area of deposition is created due to slow moving water? The water is moving so slowly that plants begin to grow on top of it?
Marshes
What process is represented by number 2:
Cooling and Hardening
What are the Characteristics of every Mineral?
Solid, Naturally Occuring, Inorganic, Fixed Composition, and Crystal Structure
Which property involves comparing a mineral to other minerals and objects by scratching them?
The hardness test
What is Chemical Weathering?
When rocks change in composition due to acid dissolving the rocks
A rock → experiences weathering and erosion → compacts and cements→ becomes a sedimentary rock→ gets taken deep underground → goes through extreme heat and pressure → become a _________________
metamorphic rock
Describe what is forming and what process is causing it to form?
Delta which is formed by Deposition at the mouth of a river.
What is the scale that we use to measure the hardness of Minerals?
Mohs Hardness Scale
How do Sedimentary Rocks form?
Through the weathering, Erosion and Deposition of rocks into sediments. Those sediments then go through Compaction and Cementation to become Sedimentary rocks.
What is happening at location Y
Water is moving slower causing Deposition
What process is represented by number 5:
Heat and pressure
Name the mineral properties.
Breakage (Cleavage, Fracture), Color, Luster, Streak, Hardness, Density
Which property involves finding the relationship between the mass and the volume of a mineral?(Mass ➗ Volume)
Density
How do Metamorphic Rocks form?
Minerals in the rocks are rearranged and create a new rock by the heat and pressure deep underground.
What process is represented by number 1:
Melting
What do we use to test minerals to identify what type of mineral it is?
Mineral Properties
What is Mechanical Weathering?
When the composition of the rock stays the same and is just broken.
How do Igneous Rocks form?
Through the melting, cooling and hardening of magma or lava
A metamorphic rock → experiences weathering and erosion → compacts and cements→becomes a ________________
Sedimentary Rock
What diagram shows the constant way in which rocks can go through processes to become different rocks?
The Rock Cycle
Which Property involves testing the color of a mineral’s powder by using a porcelain plate?
Streak Test
A rock → melts into lava→ Cools and Hardens → becomes ____________
an Igneous rock
What process is represented by number 3:
Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
Which property has to do with minerals breaking in a pattern?
Cleavage
Which property has to do with minerals breaking randomly?
Fracture
Which property is the least useful?
Color
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