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The study of the planet Earth, including its physical structure, its composition, its history, and the processes that act on it.
What is geology?
The three major types of rock forms.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
This refers to the specific geometric shape in which the atoms of each mineral are arranged.
What is crystalline structure?
This is what we call the sum of all water on the planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment.
What is weathering?
These occur when earthquakes vibrate the Earth.
What are seismic waves?
This is formed when existing sedimentary or igneous rocks change because of extreme pressure and temperature.
What is metamorphic rock?
This mineral is always a shiny gold color, but it is not real gold!
What is pyrite?
The majority of Earth's freshwater is stored here.
Where is icebergs and glaciers?
This is the most common form of mechanical wedging.
What is ice wedging (or frost wedging)?
The three compositional layers of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
Small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud, or clay.
What is sediment?
The way the surface of a mineral reflects light os known as this.
What is luster?
This is evaporation from plants.
What is transpiration?
This occurs when one rock collides with and scrapes along another rock.
What is abrasion?
The place where the magnetic feld of the Earth is generated.
What is the core?
The vast majority of fossils are found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
This describes how easy or difficult it is for a mineral to be scratched.
What is hardness?
Snow, sleet, and hail are types of this.
What is precipitation?
The process that moves sediment.
What is erosion?
The five mechanical layers of the Earth.
What are the lithosphere, asthenoshpere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core?
The etymology of this word traces its origin back to a Latin adjective meaing "fiery."
What is igneous?
This is the tendency of a mineral to break along a regular, well-defined plane (flat surface) where the bonds are weakest.
What is cleavage?
The hydrologic cycle was described long ago in this book of the Bible.
What is Job (Job 36:27-28)?
These can form when sediments are deposited by water.
What are alluvial fans or deltas?