Earth Science
The branch of Earth science related to the history and formation of rocks.
What is geology?
The invisible line dividing the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This feature of minerals give them their structure and determine their shape.
What is crystalline?
Pit, quarry, and strip mining are variations on this type of mining.
What is surface mining?
This type of rock forms when magma cools.
What is igneous?
The area of Earth science related to ocean tides, oceanic volcanoes, and the sea floor.
What is Oceanography?
The technology GPS, radar, and photography use to map the Earth.
What are satellites?
These minerals are comprised primarily of the elements silicon and oxygen.
What are silicate minerals?
These minerals are mined because of their beauty and used as riches.
What are gemstones?
Compaction and cementation creates this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
The final step in the scientific methods.
What is share?
The invisible line separating the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This form of mineral is less pure, but still has enough value to be mined.
What is ore?
Sub-surface mining includes slope mining, drift mining, and this.
What is shaft mining?
Weathering leads to this process in the rock cycle.
What is erosion?
This model is used to understand big ideas in astronomy like the Big Bang Theory.
What is conceptual model?
The consequence all maps have of flattening a 3D shape onto flat surface.
What is distortion?
This mineral test is the most accurate and can often instantly identify rocks based on their specific gravity.
What is density?
The process of returning or improving the land mining occurred on.
What is reclamation?
Heat and pressure change rocks from another type into this type.
What is metamorphic rock?
The study of wind and weather Earth science.
What is meteorology?
Lines on a map used to denote changes in elevation.
What are contour lines?
This trait prevents synthetic varieties of minerals from being truly mineral.
What is naturally formed?
The type of minerals used in building materials and semi-conductors.
What are non-metallic?
Uplift occurs in this step of the rock cycle.
What is solidification?