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Rock/Water Test Flashcards

1
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In what physical state does most of Earth´s fresh water exist?

A

solid, frozen, form of icers or ice caps

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2
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Other than glaciers, what is the other abundant freshwater resource

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groundwater

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3
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What process keeps the amount of water on Earth´s surface constant?

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Water(hydrophilic) cycle

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4
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Watershed def.

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the land area that contributes water to a stream (includes all surface water and groundwater)

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5
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What watersheds is Eaton associated with?

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Cache la Poudre, South Platte, Missouri, Mississippi

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Which side of the Rocky Mountains are most of Colorado’s surface water located?

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west side

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7
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why is the water on the west side but the higher population is on the east

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rainshadow effect: more precipitation on the west side

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8
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Factors that determine the velocity of a river

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gradient, stream Channel, Discharge

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9
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Which side of the rocky mountains is most of Colorado´s population?

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east side

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10
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how did colorado address the distribution of water in the state and the pattern of the population?

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Colorado has managed this by creating dam, pipelines, tunnels, and water ways to move the water over the mountain.

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11
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explain what occurs with sediments being carried by a stream as the velocity of the stream decreases

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Sediment begins to drop out beginning with the largest particle-sorting

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12
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Factors that increase infiltration of groundwater

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steepness of slope, nature of surface, intensity of rainfall, and type of amount of vegatation

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13
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Porosity def.

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How much air space is in sediment or rock in the form of holes, cracks, cavities, from dissolved rocks, gaps, between grains(Determines amount of water that can be stored)

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14
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Permeability def.

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How well the pore spaces are connected with each other(Determines how water moves through sediment or rock)

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15
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Factors that affect the porosity and permeability of sediments

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size, sorting, groundness

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16
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Define aquifer

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groundwater storage, a body of permeable rock that can contain or allow water through it

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17
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What is a water table?

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upper level of saturated ground

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18
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Explain the formation of caves and sinkholes.

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when mildly acidic groundwater dissolves the calcite in limestone. This occurs in the zone of saturation when groundwater has constant contact with limestone.

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19
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What criteria define a mineral?

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Naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, chemical composition, crystalline structure

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20
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The appearance or quality of light reflected from the surface of the mineral.

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luster

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21
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The resistance of a mineral to being scratched is known as

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hardness

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22
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Minerals that break in unpredictable or irregular patterns show

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fracture

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23
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The most unreliable property of a mineral is color because

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small amounts of different elements can give the same mineral a different color

24
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The term metallic refers to which physical property

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luster

25
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The color of a mineral in a powdered from

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streak

26
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The ability of a mineral to break on even planes of weakness and shows a geometric shape

A

cleavage

27
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In the rock cycle, rocks are classified by

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how they form

28
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Rocks made of other pieces of other rocks or organic material are called.

A

sedimentary

29
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Rocks made of cooled magma or lava are called

A

igneous

30
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rocks that form as a result of heat and pressure applied to preexisting rocks are called

A

metamorphic

31
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what processes must occur in order to produce a sedimentary rock

A

weathering and erosion

deposition,

compaction and cementation

32
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what is the breaking up of earth materials into pieces called?

A

weathering

33
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what is the transportation of earth materials called?

A

erosion

34
Q

Intergrown crystals are usually a characteristic of which group of rocks

A

igneous

35
Q

Which type of magma is formed in the ocean crust and contains high levels of iron and magnesium

A

basaltic magma

36
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the type of magma that is rich in silica and generally results in light-colored rocks is called

A

granite magma

37
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igneous rocks are classified according to?

A

texture and magma type

38
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the size of the mineral crystals in an igneous rock indicates what

A

intrusive/extrusive (below or above ground)

39
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if a geologist finds an igneous rock with large mineral crystals and is light in color, what does this indicate about the formation of the rock?

A

granitic (continental crust), below ground

40
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If a geologist finds an igneous with microscopic mineral crystals and is dark in color, what does this indicate about the formation of the rock?

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basaltic (ocean crust), above ground

41
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sedimentary rocks are classified by?

A

biochemical (once-living things)

clastic (pieces of other rocks)

chemical (dissolved)

42
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what mineral is responsible for the reaction to hydrochloric acid?

A

calcite

43
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which rocks would react to calcite?

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minerals that would react are marble and limestone

44
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when a geologist sees a sedimentary rock with rounded pieces she knows that the transportation of the sediments must have been…

A

far from source, swift river

45
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how does the sedimentary rock limestone form

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in oceans (dissolved and sunk)

46
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what is the source of the material that makes coal?

A

compacted plants

47
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clastic sedimentary rocks are classified by?

A

grain size (coarse, medium, fine)

48
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coal is best described as what type of sedimentary rock?

A

bio chemica

49
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the single most characteristic feature of sedimentary rocks is?

A

stratification

50
Q

sediment that shrinks as the water dries out of it results in what sedimentary feature?

A

mud cracks

51
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fine-grained sedimentary rocks record waves action in shallow water by preserving this sedimentary feature

A

ripple marks

52
Q

foliation is a characteristic for which type of rock

A

metamorphic, fine to coarse

53
Q

which rocks can show layers

A

sandstone, stratified

54
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most of the heat for contact metamorphism is created by?

A

magma, lava, friction, depth below surface

55
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regional metamorphism affects large areas and often results in what texture?

A

foliated

56
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describe foliated

A

layers, more than one mineral type, various size crystals

57
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describe non- foliated

A

no layers, one mineral type, equal size crystals

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