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Unit 3 Review Packet

Minerals

Answer the following questions using the plates of minerals.

  1. Which mineral has a metallic luster?
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. How many sides of cleavage does mineral 1 have?
  7. 2
  8. 3
  9. 6
  10. 4
  1. What type of luster does mineral 3 have?
  2. Metallic
  3. Vitreous
  4. Waxy
  5. Glassy
  6. Which mineral has 1 side of cleavage?
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4
  11. Which mineral has a red-brown streak?
  12. 1
  13. 2
  14. 3
  15. 4

Match the following mineral identification terms to the matching description. Each is only used once.

  1. Luster ______A. The number of parallel breaks a mineral has.
  2. Crystals ______B. The way a mineral reflects light (ex: Metallic, Waxy)
  3. Cleavage ______C. A minerals ability to resist being scratched
  4. Color ______D. The color of a minerals powder
  5. Hardness ______E. Not a reliable form of mineral identification.
  6. Streak ______F. Shape of a mineral resulting from an orderly geometric

arrangement of their atoms

Match the following tool with its known hardness value.

  1. Finger Nail ______A. 5.5 Hardness
  2. Glass ______B 6.5 Hardness
  3. Penny ______C. 2.5 Hardness
  4. Iron Nail ______D. 3.5 Hardness
  5. Steel File ______E. 4.5 Hardness

  1. When testing for hardness, which of the following tools would you test with first?
  2. Glass Plate
  3. Copper Penny
  4. Finger Nail
  5. Steel File
  6. Which of the following is untrue of minerals. (use your notes)
  7. Naturally occurring
  8. Organic
  9. Definite Chemical Composition
  10. Unique properties to each

  1. What is the hardest known mineral? ______
  2. Which of the following determines a minerals physical properties?
  3. The minerals chemical composition
  4. The color
  5. The minerals arrangement of atoms
  6. The minerals hardness

Mineral / Hardness
A / 5
B / 6
C / 3
D / 4
  1. Which mineral from the table would be most likely to scratch the others?
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. If you rub minerals A and D together which one will have residue left on it?
  7. A
  8. B
  9. C
  10. D
  11. Which of the minerals in the table would scratch with a penny but not with a finger nail?
  12. A
  13. B
  14. C
  15. D
  16. Which of the minerals in the table would scratch with a steel file but not with a glass plate?
  17. A
  18. B
  19. C
  20. D

Earth’s Layers

  1. Fill in Earth’s layers in the diagram below.

2. Order the layers below from least to most dense.

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4. If a continental plate and an oceanic plate come together, what will happen? Why?

5. Draw the objects in the liquid below.

6. Draw the molecules in the boxes below based on the density.

7. Draw a diagram of plates of the same density coming together. (ex: 2 continental crusts)

Plate Boundaries

For the following questions answer based on plate boundaries A, B, C, and D above.

  1. Which type of plate boundary is A? ______
  2. What two types of crust are involved in boundary A? ______and ______
  3. Which type of plate boundary is B? ______
  4. What two types of crust are involved in boundary B? ______and ______
  5. Which type of plate boundary is C? ______
  6. What two types of crust are involved in boundary C? ______and ______
  7. Which type of plate boundary is D? ______
  8. What two types of crust are involved in boundary D? ______and ______
  9. Which plate boundary creates island arcs? (give the letter) ______
  10. Which plate boundary creates mountain ranges? (give the letter) ______
  11. Which plate boundary creates new crust (give the letter) ______
  12. Which plate boundaries recycle old crust? (give the letter) ______and ______
  13. Name a plate boundary where two crusts of the same density come together? ______
  14. Name a plate boundary where two crusts of different density come together? ______
  15. Draw a diagram of being recycled and recreated. Be sure to label what is happening.
  1. Which type of crust is the oldest? ______
  2. Which type of crust is the densest? ______
  3. Using the divergent boundary diagram below order the letters from youngest to oldest.

______, ______, ______, ______, ______, and ______.

  1. To create deep see trenches crusts of the same/different (circle one) densities come together.
  2. Draw a diagram of a transform boundary below.

For the following questions identify the type of boundary.

  1. Plates come together in ______boundaries.
  2. Plates move apart in ______boundaries.
  3. Plates slide past each other in ______boundaries.

Fill in the diagram below for what occurs at all the plate boundaries. Draw in and label the feature as well as identify the boundary type.

  1. ______boundary
  1. ______boundary
  1. ______boundary
  1. ______boundary
  1. ______boundary
  1. Old crust gets recycled at ______boundaries.
  2. New crust is formed at ______boundaries.
  3. What is the driving force behind plate movement ______.

Earthquakes

  1. Label the diagram below.
  1. . In the diagrams below draw in the waves and the shadows.

For the following questions use the graph to determine the number of miles away from the epicenter.

  1. The waves are 1.5 minutes apart. ______miles from epicenter
  2. The waves are 5 minutes apart. ______miles from epicenter
  3. The waves are 4 minutes apart. ______miles from epicenter
  4. The waves are 3 minutes apart. ______miles from epicenter

For the following questions use the wave diagram below and the table at the top of the page.

  1. For the wave reading below label the s-wave, surface wave, and p-wave.

  1. How many minutes between the p-wave and the s-wave in the reading above? ______min
  2. Using the wave reading how many miles is the station from the epicenter? ______miles
  3. There are stations all across the country that help us to determine the epicenter of an earthquake by measuring the distance between waves. For the following diagram please put a star where we would find the epicenter.
  1. For the wave below, how much time is between the S-wave and the P-wave?

  1. In the station reading space below, draw the p-wave and s-wave from a station that is 1500 miles from the epicenter. (Hint: use the previous graph to figure out the time between waves)

Volcanoes

  1. Label the diagram below.

For the following questions identify the volcano type. The three types are Shield, Stratovolcano, and Cinder Cone.

  1. ______3. ______4. ______

5. Which type of volcano has low dissolved gases? ______

6. Which type of volcano has high silicon in its lava? ______

7. This type of volcano only has one main vent? ______

8. This type of volcano is both explosive and has lava flows. ______

9. This type of volcano has a low profiles. ______

10. This type of volcano is Mt. Vesuvius (Pompeii). ______

Identify the volcano as active, dormant, intermittent, or extinct.

1. A volcano that has not erupted in written history is ______.

12. A volcano that erupts on a regular basis is ______.

13. A volcano that erupts constantly is ______.

14. A volcano that has not erupted in a while but could is ______.

15. Hawaii’s volcano is ______.

16. Mt. Vesuvius (Pompeii) is ______.

17. Yellowstone’s volcano is ______.

Geologic Time

  1. Label the Eon, Period, Era, and Epoch on the timeline below.
  1. In which era do we find human life? ______
  2. What is the largest interval of geologic time? (Era, Period, Epoch, or Eon) ______
  3. During which Eon did most events occur? ______
  4. During which Era did most events occur? ______
  5. During which Period were you born? ______

  1. During which Period did dinosaurs go extinct? (65 mya)

______

  1. What is the 1st(earliest) Era in the Phanerozoic Eon? ______
  2. In which era did the Cambrian explosion occur? ______
  3. What is the Cambrian explosion?
  4. What was the first era of the Precambrian Eon? ______
  5. What Epoch were you born in?

______

  1. What eon was the Paleocene Epoch in?

______

  1. How many years ago was the Cambrian Explosion? ______