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Notes On Checkpoint Science

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Earth Worksheet Notes

Tan C / Kuching

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  1. Il Page ENFORCEMENT TEST 1. What is a geologist? 2. How can you tell the difference between a rock and a mineral? 3. Name 3 different minerals and describe where you can see them. 4. Explain why sedimentary rocks are porous. 5. Explain why fossil fuels never founds in an igneous rock. 6. Pumice is an example of an igneous rock that is porous . How do you think pumice became porous. 7. Marble and limestone are both made of calcium carbonate, but they have different properties. Why is this? 8. How is quartzite formed?
  2. 2 Page 9. Do you think that a metamorphic rock could contain fossils? Explain your answer. 10. What is weathering? 11. What is chemical weathering? 12. Give an example of how chemical weathering is caused. 13. Describe the process of physical weathering caused by rainwater freezing in cracks. 14. Describe one example of biotic weathering. 15. How is rock fragment formed?
  3. 13 Page 16. How are rock fragment moved? 17. What does 'deposition' mean? 18. Explain why some rock fragments are carried further than others. 19. What is meant by 'abrasion'? 20. What is a fossil? 21. Which type of rock are fossils found in? 22. Describe how fossils are made. 23. How do we know that coal was not formed in seas.
  4. 4 Page 24. What do fossils tell us? 25.