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Minerals
Rock
Weathering.
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What occurs when minerals break unevenly along curved or irregular surfaces?
a) streak
b) fracture
c) luster
d) cleavage
What is the color of a mineral in powdered form called?
a) fracture
b) liquid
c) gas
d) streak
What is a solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter called?
a) sediment
b) sand
c) rock
d) magma
What is the process called that forms new rock from old rock?
a) the erosion cycle
b) the rock cycle
c) the water cycle
d) the carbon cycle
What is the process in which water, wind, ice, and heat break down rock called?
a) cementation
b) metamorphism
c) solidification
d) weathering
What moves sediment from one place to another?
a) deposition
b) weathering
c) erosion
d) uplift
Which of the following is NOT a type of tectonic plate boundary?
a) convergent boundary
b) divergent boundary
c) transform boundary
d) fault-block boundary
The three ways that tectonic plates can move relative to each other are
a) drift, separate, and slide.
b) drift, separate, and slide.
c) collide, fuse, and slide.
d) collide, separate, and slide.
What causes seismic waves?
a) winds
b) an earthquake
c) magnetic reversal
d) rain
What are large pieces of lithosphere that move on top of the asthenosphere called?
a) mantle pieces
b) crust plates
c) tectonic plates
d) puzzle pieces
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