Ya So Basic
This planet is an oblate spheroid.
What is earth?
The solid components of the earth.
Emeralds are this form of a mineral.
What is beryl?
Crust under the ocean is known as this.
What is oceanic crust?
What is a fossil mold?
Ice melting into water is an example of this process.
What is melting?
Vibrations caused by earthquakes.
What are seismic waves?
A fracture between two blocks of rock that allows the rocks to move relative to each other is known as this.
What is a fault?
A fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone compression.
What is a compression fossil?
This is a measure of how much matter is in an object.
What is mass?
The C-horizon is the last layer of soil just above this.
What is limestone?
Rock formed from small particles accumulating and then sticking together.
What is sedimentary rock?
A scale that uses equal divisions to represent multiplying by a specific number is known as this type of skill.
What is a logarithmic scale?
Fossilized animal feces.
What is coprolite?
This is exchanged because of a difference in temperature or a change in phase.
What is heat?
This is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loam?
In a series of rock strata, the oldest stratum is at the bottom, and the rocks get progressively younger the higher they are in the series is known as this principle.
What is the Principle of Superposition?
A wave that vibrates parallel to the direction it travels is known as this type of wave.
The process by which an organism's remains are replaced by minerals, preserving them.
What is petrification?
This is the amount of a substance in a defined volume.
What is concentration?
Changes caused by repeated heating and cooling of the environment can cause damage and is referred to as this kind of stress.
What is thermal?
The most valuable form of coal is called this.
What is anthracite coal?
This type of mountain is formed by magma pushing up on the lithosphere without breaking.
What is a dome mountain?
This petrified skeleton found in Pakistan was once thought to be whale-like.
What is Pakicetus?