Introduction to Science
What is the surface of the water under the ground?
Water table
What type of fault occurs when rocks on one side of the fault are shove over the rocks on the other side?
Thrust
Oxygen
What is the material carried by a stream?
Load
What type of fossil forms when mud buries a plant or animal and quickly hardens into rock, leaving an impression after the plant or animal decays?
Mold fossil
What is a layer of either porous rock or gravel-soil mixture that holds water?
Aquifer
The middle of the earth's three layers is the...
Mantle
What term describes the way light is reflected from the surface of a mineral?
Luster
What is a glacier-carved valley that has filled with seawater called?
Fjord
What scientist first suggested that many catastrophes have shaped Earth’s geological features?
Georges Cuvier
What is the term for the factors that remain the same throughout an experiment?
Controlled variables
What type of fold occurs when rocks buckle up to form an arch-like substance?
Anticline
What is the primary factor that determines the texture of igneous rocks?
Rate of cooling
Which type of weathering involves the breaking or peeling away of rock into layers?
Exfoliation
Why is the conflict between Creation and evolution not about what science says but about what man believes?
No scientist observed the beginning of the earth.
Which of the following affects soil color?
Amount of organic material
Which of the following is most likely to cause a volcanic eruption to be violent?
Large amounts of dissolved gases
Fool's gold is an example of what type of mineral?
Sulfides
What are piles of debris left behind when a glacier melts?
Moraines
What is the first and largest division of the geologic colum?
Eon
What type of bacteria returns nitrogen to the atmosphere by converting nitrogen from nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen?
Denitrifying bacteria
What is the inner core of the earth thought to be?
Solid
What type of rock forms when magma solidifies?
Igneous
What are large, deep grooves and scratches in rock, produced by glaciers?
Striae
What term refers to the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element?
Half-life