Froiland's Rocks And Minerals
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This is a 8th grade test of rocks and minerals, scientific skills, archeology.
- 1.What do we call the land part of our planet?
- A.
Atmosphere
- B.
Biosphere
- C.
Hydrosphere
- D.
Lithosphere
- 2.What do we call the gases that surround earth?
- A.
Atmosphere
- B.
Biosphere
- C.
Hydrosphere
- D.
Lithosphere
- 3.What do we call the water and ice of earth?
- A.
Atmosphere
- B.
Biosphere
- C.
Hydrosphere
- D.
Lithosphere
- 4.What do we call the living parts of Earth?
- A.
Atmosphere
- B.
Biosphere
- C.
Hydrosphere
- D.
Lithosphere
- 5.What is the center most part of earth called?
- A.
Core
- B.
Crust
- C.
Mantle
- 6.What is the middle, molten layer of earth called?
- A.
Core
- B.
Crust
- C.
Mantle
- 7.What is the outermost layer of the earth (part we live on)?
- A.
Core
- B.
Crust
- C.
Mantle
- 8.What is a set of learned values, beliefs and behaviors of a society?
- A.
Artifact
- B.
Chronology
- C.
Context
- D.
Culture
- E.
Evidence
- 9.Any object made or used by a human, is called a(n) ________________.
- A.
Artifact
- B.
Chronology
- C.
Context
- D.
Culture
- E.
Evidence
- 10.Data which scientists use to prove a point, is ________________.
- A.
Artifact
- B.
Chronology
- C.
Context
- D.
Culture
- E.
Evidence
- 11.___________________ is the arrangement of events in the order they occurred.
- A.
Artifact
- B.
Chronology
- C.
Context
- D.
Culture
- E.
Evidence
- 12._______________ is the relationship artifacts have to one another and the situation in which they're found.
- A.
Artifact
- B.
Chronology
- C.
Context
- D.
Culture
- E.
Evidence
- 13.An ancient garbage mound is a ______________.
- A.
Flake
- B.
Midden
- C.
Sherd
- D.
Subsistence
- 14.Tasks people perform to obtain food to live is known as _________________.
- A.
Flake
- B.
Midden
- C.
Sherd
- D.
Subsistence
- 15.________________ is a broken piece of pottery.
- A.
Flake
- B.
Midden
- C.
Sherd
- D.
Subsistence
- 16.______________ is a broken piece of an ancient rock tool.
- A.
Flake
- B.
Midden
- C.
Sherd
- D.
Subsistence
- 17.Property observed when looking at the color of a mineral.
- A.
Cleavage
- B.
Color
- C.
Fracture
- D.
Luster
- E.
Streak
- 18.The color of the powder of a mineral.
- A.
Cleavage
- B.
Color
- C.
Fracture
- D.
Luster
- E.
Streak
- 19.The way light reflects off a mineral.
- A.
Cleavage
- B.
Color
- C.
Fracture
- D.
Luster
- E.
Streak
- 20.Minerals that have flat planes of breakage are said to have this property.
- A.
Cleavage
- B.
Color
- C.
Fracture
- D.
Luster
- E.
Streak
- 21.Minerals that have curved or jagged surfaces of breakage are said to have this property.
- A.
Cleavage
- B.
Color
- C.
Fracture
- D.
Luster
- E.
Streak
- 22.___________ rocks are formed by the cooling of magma.
- A.
Igneous
- B.
Metamorphic
- C.
Sedimentary
- 23._____________ rocks are formed by the layering of sediment over time.
- A.
Igneous
- B.
Metamorphic
- C.
Sedimentary
- 24._____________ rocks are formed by changing already formed rocks with extreme heat and/or pressure.
- A.
Igneous
- B.
Metamorphic
- C.
Sedimentary
- 25.________________ is molten material inside the earth.
- 26.______________ is the process rocks go through to be formed, destroyed, and remade.
- 27.Igneous rocks that cool on the earth's surface are called _________________.
- 28.Igneous rocks that cool inside the earth are called ________________.
- 29.Which of the following objects are not useful in finding a mineral's hardness?
- A.
Fingernail
- B.
Penny
- C.
Steel nail
- D.
Glass
- E.
Unglazed tile
- 30.The softest mineral is ____________.
- 31.The hardest mineral is _____________.
- 32.Look at rock sample A. What type of rock is it?
- A.
Igneous
- B.
Metamorphic
- C.
Sedimentary
- 33.Look at Rock Sample B. What color is its streak?
- 34.Look at Rock Sample B. How would you describe its texture?
- 35.Look at Rock Sample B. Did this rock cool quickly or slowly?
- A.
Quickly
- B.
Slowly
- 36.Look at Rock Sample B. What is this rock's luster?
- A.
Dull
- B.
Glassy
- C.
Metallic
- 37.Which rock's density is most similar to popcorn?
- A.
Limestone
- B.
Pumice
- C.
Rhyolite
- D.
Talc
- 38.What type of texture results from, lava cooling rapidly?
- A.
Fine-grained
- B.
Coarse-grained
- C.
Porphyritic
- 39.What type of texture results in magma cooling in two stages?
- A.
Fine-grained
- B.
Coarse-grained
- C.
Porphyritic
- 40.What type of texture results in magma cooling slowly?
- A.
Fine-grained
- B.
Coarse-grained
- C.
Porphyritic
- 41.Process in which dissolved minerals glue sediment together.
- A.
Cementation
- B.
Compaction
- C.
Deposition
- D.
Erosion
- 42.Process in which sediments are pressed together in layers.
- A.
Cementation
- B.
Compaction
- C.
Deposition
- D.
Erosion
- 43.Process in which water or wind loosen and carry away rock fragments.
- A.
Cementation
- B.
Compaction
- C.
Deposition
- D.
Erosion
- 44.Process in which sediments settle out of water or wind.
- A.
Cementation
- B.
Compaction
- C.
Deposition
- D.
Erosion
- 45.Name the sedimentary rock formed by the layering of dead, swampy plant material. _________
- 46.What type of sedimentary rocks are limestone and coal?
- 47.In what type of rocks do we find fossils? __________________
- 48.Look at The Rock Cycle Diagram, what does letter A represent?
- 49.Look at the Rock Cycle Diagram, what does letter B represent?
- 50.Look at the Rock Cycle Diagram, what does letter C represent?
- 51.Another word for foliated would be ________________.
- A.
Fine-grained
- B.
Eroded
- C.
Banded
- D.
Compacted
- 52.Sedimentary rocks that form by compaction are called ____________________.
- A.
Chemical
- B.
Clastic
- C.
Organic
- 53.Look at Diagram B. Which rock layer is the oldest?
- 54.Look at Diagram B. What rock layer is the youngest?
- 55.Look at Diagram B. What type of rock(igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) is rock layer B?
- 56.What type of currents are responsible for the "stirring" of minerals in the magma of earth?
- A.
Conduction
- B.
Convection
- C.
Radiation
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