Name _______________________________
Complete and know the following terms:
Rocks/Minerals:
Mineral
Coarse grained
Igneous rock
Metamorphic rock
Rock cycle
Organic rock
Fossils:
Trace fossil
Fossil
Erosion/Deposition:
Erosion
Deposition
Mass movement
Beach
Mudflow
Plate Tectonics:
Lithosphere
Subduction
Plate tectonics
Crust
Transform boundary
Sea floor spreading
Strike slip fault
Earthquakes:
Richter scale
Seismograph
Tsunami
Weathering:
Weathering
Oxidation
Chemical weathering
Mechanical weathering
Soil and Soil Conservation:
Humus
Decomposers
B horizon
Soil conservation
Conservation plowing
Midterm Study Guide-Test __________
Complete and know the following information:
Rocks/Minerals:
Hardest mineral
Softest mineral
How rocks and minerals are related
What crust is made of
Heat to form metamorphic rock comes from
Most useful metamorphic rocks
Process to create sedimentary rock
Fossils:
What part of organism is preserved as fossils
What fossil record shows
Age of layers of rock (Law of superposition)
Plate Tectonics:
Order of layers of Earth
How scientists study interior of earth
How temperature changes as you go from crust to core
How density changes as you go from crust to core
Process of convection currents
Why continental drift theory was rejected
Why plates move
Landforms found at a convergent boundary
Where Earth’s magnetic field comes from
Where mid ocean ridges are found
Subduction creates which rock
Volcanoes:
Where volcanoes are found
Where magma comes from
Formation of Hawaiian Islands
Weathering:
Examples of mechanical weathering
When wind deposits sediment
Why/How limestone is easily eroded
Soil and Soil Conservation:
How soil forms
Why soil is valuable
How erosion will affect bare land
How to slow down erosion of soil on flat land