Rock/Mineral
Most rocks are a mixture of ...
What are Minerals?
This force aids in most erosion and deposition.
What is gravity?
These are the largest divisions on the Geologic History Timeline.
What are Eons?
Two most common types of precipitation.
What are rain and snow?
The Sun is one of these celestial objects.
Pumice is an example.
What is Igneous rock or extrusive rock or vesicular rock?
This agent of erosion directly deposits unsorted sediment accumulations.
What is a glacier?
This would be the first indication on a seismograph of a distant earthquake.
What is a P wave?
The temperature at which water vapor in cooling air condenses.
What is the Dew Point?
A lunar eclipse can occur during this phase.
What is a Full Moon?
Minerals display this characteristic if there are planes of weakness in their atomic arrangement.
What is cleavage?
This process causes the rounding of pebbles and cobbles in a stream load as well as the deepening of stream channels into bedrock.
What is abrasion?
Happens to oceanic lithosphere at zones of convergence with continental lithosphere.
What is subduction?
Relative Humidity is measured indirectly by evaporative cooling on this instrument.
What is a psychrometer?
This cosmic clouds of gas and dust are the birthplace of stars and planets.
What are Nebulas?
Evident texture of schist.
What is foliation or schistosity?
Karst Topography is typical is areas with this type of bedrock.
What is limestone?
Convection in this upper mantle zone causes tectonic plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere?
Weather event with the highest wind speeds.
What is a tornado?
Earth's Perihelion month.
What is January?
Common representation of density in Minerals, usually measured using Archemedes principle of buoyancy.
What is Specific Gravity?
Type of physical weathering caused by the unloading of Earth's crust; common to granite and gneiss.
What is exfoliation?
Landforms caused by convergence of ocean basin crust with ocean basin crust.
What are volcanic islands or a volcanic island arc?
This refers to air temperature decrease due to drop in pressure.
What is adiabatic cooling?
Imaginary line of latitude experiencing 90 degrees of INSOLATION on June 1.
What is the Tropic of Cancer or 23.5 N?