Quiz about Earth Materials Review

Question 1

Sample #1 for soil type is ____?

Accepted Answer

clay

Answer

sand

Answer

loam

Question 2

Sample #2 for soil color is ____?

Accepted Answer

brown

Answer

tan

Answer

red

Question 3

Sample #3 for soil texture is _____?

Accepted Answer

gritty

Answer

smooth

Answer

powdery

Question 4

What caused the erosion of this sand to form dunes?

Accepted Answer

wind

Answer

water

Answer

ice

Answer

silt

Question 5

5. Which is NOT a property of a mineral?

Accepted Answer

temperature

Answer

hardness

Answer

color

Answer

luster

Question 6

6. A solid, formed in nature, and has never been alive is called a ____________.

Accepted Answer

mineral

Answer

rock

Answer

streak

Answer

hardness

Question 7

7.  What is the process that moves pieces of rock and soil?

Accepted Answer

erosion

Answer

delta

Answer

river

Answer

weathering

Question 8

8.  A ____ is made of one or more minerals.

Accepted Answer

rock

Answer

fossil

Answer

mineral

Answer

sand

Question 9

9.  ______ is made up of broken down rocks, minerals, water and the remains of once living things.

Accepted Answer

soil

Answer

rocks

Answer

clay

Answer

mountains

Question 10

10.  One way to compare rocks is to see how it feels when you touch it.  When we do this, we are finding the __________.

Accepted Answer

texture

Answer

color

Answer

luster

Answer

hardness

Question 11

11. The photo below is an example of...

Accepted Answer

weathering

Answer

erosion

Question 12

12. Kate wanted to plant flowers for her mother. She found a bag of soil in the shed. It was light tan, coarse grains, and when she poured water over it, the water ran right through the soil. What kind of soil did Kate MOST LIKELY find?

Accepted Answer

sand

Answer

clay

Answer

loam

Answer

dirt

Question 13

13. Susan found some small smooth rocks beside a stream. What caused the rocks to be weathered this way?

Accepted Answer

moving water

Answer

wind

Answer

acid rain

Answer

fish in the stream

Question 14

14.  One thousand years later, what will this mountain look like?

Accepted Answer

shorter

Answer

taller

Answer

the same

Answer

wider

Question 15

15.  A student wants to collect a soil sample that has a lot of clay in it. He observes several soil types and notices the color and particle size of each. Which soil type will have the most clay in it?

Accepted Answer

a red soil with very small particles

Answer

a black soil with large particles

Answer

a brown soil with medium particles

Question 16

16. Lynn finds a rock in her backyard and describes it as sparkly. What attribute did she use to describe the rock?

Accepted Answer

luster

Answer

texture

Answer

hardness

Answer

color

Question 17

17.  A student collected some rocks while hiking and needs to record where she found them.  Which rock was found in a riverbed?

Accepted Answer

Rock P

Answer

Rock Q

Answer

Rock R

Answer

Rock S

Question 18

18. Use the bar graph to determine which of these minerals is the hardest?

Accepted Answer

Diamond

Answer

Gypsum

Answer

Quartz

Answer

Topaz

Question 19

19. What do we call the color of the powder left behind when a mineral is rubbed against a white tile?

Accepted Answer

Streak

Answer

Hardness

Question 20

20. True or False....Erosion is a very fast process. It does not take long at all.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

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