What component drives many internal processes of the Earth?
Heat
TRUE or FALSE: Rocks are aggregate of minerals.
TRUE
It refers to the quality of light on the surface of the rock, crystal, or mineral are reflected.
Luster
The minerals' ability to resist scratcing or abrasion.
Hardness
These are systems of the Earth that are dependent on and connected with one another.
Subsystem
type of rock is formed from protolith by different agents such as heat, pressure, fluids.
Metamorphic Rock
This method us used to determine whether an object or event is older or younger.
Relative Dating
TRUE or FALSE: Due to mutual gravitational attraction, particles move and collide, and electrostatic force keeps them together, making the Nebular Hypothesis the most widely accepted solar system formation hypothesis.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE: The presence of Earth’s system is how life existed on the planet in the first place.
TRUE
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are inner rocky planets and also called...
Terrestrial Planets
This method measures the absolute age of an event or object with numerical value.
Absolute Dating
They proposed the Planetesimal Theory which states that a star passed close enough to the sun, creating huge tides and causing materials to be ejected.
Chamberlin and Moulton
This type of plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
Divergent Boundary
What are some of the classifications of rocks usually based on _____ and composition.
Texture
It states that it predicted a universe that expanded but did not change density.
Steady State Theory
The process where sediments form sedimentary rocks?
Lithification
The mineral regarded to be the hardest natural substance.
Diamond
Geocentric model places the Earth at the center of the Solar System and is proposed by?
Claudius Ptolemy
It is the totality of the Earth's Water.
Hydrosphere
He developed a theory that sees our universe as just one of many universe as a part of a multiverse.
Andre Linde
The disintegration of rocks caused by living organisms.
Biotic/Biological Weathering
This hypothesis states that the gravitational force exerted by the particles of gas towards each other pulled them together, causing collision, resulting in the formation of the planets and the sun.
Nebular Hypothesis
The tendency of a mineral to split or cleave along planes of weakness.
Cleavage
What is formed when igneous and metamorphic rocks are exposed to tremendous heat?
Magma
Type of weathering that is described as the breakdown of a rock without any change in their chemical composition.
Physical Weathering
Refers to the color of the powder formed when a mineral is rubbed on an unweathered surface.
Streak
The most accepted theory in the origin of the universe.
Big Bang Theory
A type of rock that is formed through cooling and solidification of magma/lava.
Igneous Rock
This theory suggested that when a huge tidal wave was created from sun's collision with another star.
Tidal Theory
Earth's axis is tilted at?
23.5 degrees
What is the main driving force of weathering?
Weather
What do you call the rotation of the Earth where the amount it takes to turn on its axis
Sidereal Day
This plate boundary generates earthquake as two plates slide past each other.
Transform Boundary
This is considered as the hardest natural substance on Earth according to the Moh's Scale of Hardness
Diamond
Nicolaus Copernicus' model places the sun at the center of the Solar System and known as the...
Heliocentric Model
Having this greatly influences surface temperature, weather, and climate which are essential to the formation of life on Earth.
Atmosphere
This theory proposed that a star passed close enough to the sun, creating huge tides and causing materials to be rejected.
Planetesimal Theory
Exogenic processes happen in the form of weathering and are driven by?
Weather
Sometimes, physical weathering is also called?
Mechanical Weathering
Includes all the lifeforms and organic matter that has not yet decomposed.
Biosphere
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