Water
Natural ridges formed when water flow causes sediments to drop along the edge of a river's channel
What are levees?
These two factors determine the density of seawater.
What are temperature and salinity?
This is the breaking or peeling away of rock into layers.
What is exfoliation?
This is a very slow downslope movement of soil and rock fragments.
What is a soil creep?
This is a variable observed to determine the results.
What is a dependent variable?
Underwater valley that gives mid-ocean ridges the appearance of having twin mountain ranges
What is a rift?
During this tide, the moon, earth, and sun are in line during a full moon.
What is a spring tide?
This was probably responsible for laying down most of Earth's sedimentary rock layers.
What is the Flood?
This is the volume of the portion of the skull that includes the brain.
What is cranial capacity?
This is why coelacanth and similar organisms like it pose a problem for evolution.
What is they should have evolved at the same rate as other organisms?
Material carried by a stream
What is a load?
This looks like a pyramid with several out-reaching arms.
What is a star dune?
This is the ability to duplicate an experiment several times while keeping all factors as similar as possible between experiments and coming to the same conclusion.
What is repeatability?
Natural color is the main factor affecting this.
What is the color of the ocean?
Large waves created by underwater disturbances such as earthquakes
What is a tsunami?
This is a fertile area that is formed by deposits of minerals and sediments.
What is the river's mouth?
This is fuel for nuclear reactors.
What is uranium?
This is a gemstone that consists of corundum with traces of iron or titanium that give it a distinctive blue color.
What is sapphire?
This is table salt.
What is sodium chloride?
Sound waves produced by surface ships are reflected off this.
What is the thermocline?
This makes up most of the salt in the oceans.
What is sodium chloride?
This is the main agent of chemical weathering.
What is water?
This is why there would be hot springs and volcanoes in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is plates are spreading apart and magma is closer to the surface?
This device has an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor to allow its weight to puncture sediment and bring up sediment samples.
What is a gravity corer?
This is how many chapters we have studied in science.
What is 6?