Rocks and Mineral
This is the building block that makes up all rocks
Minerals
Rain, snow, and hail are all examples of this
Precipitation
The half life of Carbon-14 is important for using this method to determine age
Carbon Dating
This effect says that as an observer approaches the source of a waves, frequency increases
These are materials that humans collect from nature for our own use
Natural resources
Metamorphic rocks are formed by putting minerals under a lot of these two things
Heat and Pressure
This is a measurement of how much water vapor is in the air
Humidity
This is the reason we know the surface is younger than lower layers
Law of Superposition
This spectrum consists of all the different types of waves that can exist, from radio waves to gamma rays
Electromagnetic
Besides earthquakes and landslides, this "hot" topic is also an event in the geosphere
Volcanoes
Water, ice, and wind can break apart rocks in a process by this name
Weathering
These gases prevent long wave heat from the Earth from escaping the atmosphere, while allowing short wave heat from the sun in
Greenhouse gases
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed prior to the formation of the continents of today
Pangea
Planets in solar systems outside our own are called this
Exoplanets
This is the process of drilling for and ultimately collecting oil and natural gas
This white crystal, with a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale, sometimes comes in a pink variant with the name word "rose" in front of it
Quartz
This is the process of water from trees moving into the atmosphere
Transpiration
In 1820, Europeans first discovered this cool place located south of Chile
Antarctica
Ellipse
This is the name of the process of excess nutrients washing into bodies of water, creating algae blooms and dead zones
Eutrification
This black igneous rock forms from rapidly cooling lava and was used by Aztecs for blades due to the sharp angles it shatters at
Obsidian
Due to the Coriolis effect, no hurricane has ever crossed this latitudinal boundary
Equator
A transformation boundary between tectonic plates can cause this to form after the formation of surrounding rock layers
Fault line
After the exhaustion of its hydrogen, and its ultimate cooling, average sized stars become this classification of star
Black Dwarf
This book, written by Racheal Carson, motivated Americans to push towards the ban of DDT use and production
Silent Spring