One view of the Earth is as a number of systems that interact. Which of the following systems or "spheres" of the Earth involves the brittle rock at and just below the surface of the Earth?
Biosphere
lithosphere
asthenosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere - ANSWERSLithosphere
One view of the Ear...
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One view of the Earth is as a number of systems that interact. Which of the following
systems or "spheres" of the Earth involves the brittle rock at and just below the surface
of the Earth?
One view of the Earth is as a number of systems that interact. Which of the following
systems or "spheres" of the Earth involves the water at, above, and just below the
surface of the Earth?
__________ is the heating of the Earth as additional energy is "trapped" on Earth by
heat trapping gases added to the atmosphere by humans.
Acid rain
Solid waste disposal
Greenhouse effect
"Alien" species
Global warming - ANSWERSGlobal warming
In science an untested and not yet generally accepted general explanation is called
__________________.
a theory
a hypothesis
a scientific law
data - ANSWERSa hypothesis
,Which of the following is NOT a requirement for an explanation to become a scientific
theory?
It needs to be accepted by a significant majority of people worldwide.
It must be a broad and generally not very mathematical explanation.
It needs to be accepted by a significant majority of scientists worldwide.
It must be supported by significant scientific evidence. - ANSWERSIt needs to be
accepted by a significant majority of people worldwide.
________________ involves remembering ideas from small ideas such as individual
facts to large ideas like scientific theories.
Applied Mineral Identification: A friend returns from a recent trip with a mineral they
have found and asks you to identify it because you are taking Earth Science this
semester. They describe the sample as glassy and transparent. This property you have
seen associated with calcite, halite, gypsum and quartz in class. You have access to
tool kits in the lab to help you identify the unknown mineral and tell your friend to bring
the sample in for further testing.
The property your friend described is called ________________________.
streak
luster
double refraction
tenacity
color
magnetism
crystal form
hardness - ANSWERSluster
Applied Mineral Identification: A friend returns from a recent trip with a mineral they
have found and asks you to identify it because you are taking Earth Science this
semester. They describe the sample as glassy and transparent. This property you have
seen associated with calcite, halite, gypsum and quartz in class. You have access to
tool kits in the lab to help you identify the unknown mineral and tell your friend to bring
the sample in for further testing.
The property that is most easily observable in the sample but is also the least reliable is
______.
, hardness
streak
tenacity
double refraction
luster
color
crystal form
magnetism - ANSWERScolor
Applied Mineral Identification: A friend returns from a recent trip with a mineral they
have found and asks you to identify it because you are taking Earth Science this
semester. They describe the sample as glassy and transparent. This property you have
seen associated with calcite, halite, gypsum and quartz in class. You have access to
tool kits in the lab to help you identify the unknown mineral and tell your friend to bring
the sample in for further testing.
Other than the property in the question above (the mineral looks glassy and
transparent), ___________ is a second property that would not be useful in
distinguishing between the four samples.
double refraction
streak
luster
hardness
magnetism
color
crystal form
tenacity - ANSWERSmagnetism
Applied Mineral Identification: A friend returns from a recent trip with a mineral they
have found and asks you to identify it because you are taking Earth Science this
semester. They describe the sample as glassy and transparent. This property you have
seen associated with calcite, halite, gypsum and quartz in class. You have access to
tool kits in the lab to help you identify the unknown mineral and tell your friend to bring
the sample in for further testing.
Based on the test results in the question above that a penny scratched the mineral,
__________ is eliminated from the four minerals listed above.
quartz
gypsum
calcite
halite - ANSWERSquartz
Applied Mineral Identification: A friend returns from a recent trip with a mineral they
have found and asks you to identify it because you are taking Earth Science this
semester. They describe the sample as glassy and transparent. This property you have
seen associated with calcite, halite, gypsum and quartz in class. You have access to
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