Branches
of Earth Science
of Earth Science
The branch of the Earth sciences that studies the impact of this phenomenon on coastal environments?
What is Geology?
At a subduction zone between both a continental and oceanic plate which will descend?
What is oceanic?
High heat and high pressure will lead to ________________ rocks.
What is metamorphic?
An element's atomic mass is defined by the number of ___________ and __________ in the nucleus.
What is protons and neutrons?
Alfred Wegener developed the theory of_____________________.
What is continental drift?
The branch that refers to the sum total of all life on Earth is ____.
What is Biosphere?
The Earth is made up of layers and the asthenosphere is made up of the _________.
What is mantle?
Magma rises toward Earth's surface because it is _______ dense than the material around it.
What is less?
The columns of the periodic table divide atoms by their number of ____________ electrons.
What are valence?
Wood floats in water and rocks sink; thus, the density of wood is _________________.
What is lower than that of water?
The branch that refers to the water-dominated parts of Earth is called the _________.
What is hydrosphere?
During the history of Earth there have been periods when all the continents were together in a supercontinent known as ____.
What is Pangea?
When sand lithifies, the resulting rock is commonly called ______________.
What is sandstone?
Atoms that share electrons have a(n) __________ bond.
What is covalent?
Overall, ______________are a type of seismic wave that is most destructive.
What are surface waves?
The two sources in which energy powers the Earth's systems are _____ and _____.
What is the Sun and Earth's Interior?
The largest lithospheric plate is the _______________.
What is Pacific Plate?
For a geologist, the most important characteristic of a sedimentary rock is its ________.
What is layering?
If magma or lava cools quickly, the resulting igneous rock will have ___________crystals.
What are very small?
The position on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake source is called the _____________.
What is the epicenter?
Who studies the Earth system regarding minerals influence organisms living on them, how they react with water to produce soil forming minerals, or study how wind transports minerals as dust and influences climate.
What is a mineralogist?
When two plates move together, the lithosphere is __________.
What is destroyed?
The most common place for sediment to be deposited is the __________.
What is oceans?
Atoms are ______________ to be seen with an optical microscope.
What are very small?
New York and London are on two separate plates so the distance between the cities is ____________.
What is increasing?