Earth Material Unit Review

When a mountain with pointy peaks becomes a rounded hill, what process caused this?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Volcanic activity

• Mining

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The process in which rocks are broken down by both physical and chemical change.

• evaporation

• decomposing

• deposition

• weathering

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Which most likely caused the erosion to this rock?

• wind blowing on the rock

• the river flowing past it

• water freezing and thawing

• volcanic eruption

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What happens when day becomes night?

• The sun stops producing light at night.

• Earth moves further away on its orbit from the sun each night.

• Part of the Earth faces away from the sun at night.

• The Moon blocks light from the sun every night.

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What makes daylight turn to darkness?

• The Earth's rotation

• The Earth's revolution around the sun.

• The tilt of the Earth's axis.

• The sun traveling farther away from the sun on its orbit.

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What are the phases of the moon caused by?

• Tilt of the Moon

• Revolution of the Moon around the Earth.

• Revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

• The tilt of the Earth

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What is the path the Moon travels around the Earth called?

• phase

• day

• night

• orbit

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If you scrape a rock against a piece of quartz, which property of minerals are you testing for?

• texture

• color

• hardness

• luster

True or False... Color is the most obvious property of a mineral.

• True

• False

Which physical property describes how the surface of the mineral reflects light?

• color

• hardness

• streak

• luster