Intro to Earth Science
The study of the earth and the universe.
What is earth science?
This is the study of minerals.
What is minerology?
Magma that has reached the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
70% of the earth is covered by this.
What is water?
This is used to divide time into smaller units.
What is a Sundial?
There are 24 of these.
What are time zones?
Mass per unit of volume of a substance.
Dark colored and heavy are characteristics of this rock.
What is a mafic rock?
Temperature and salinity affect this.
What is the density of water?
A building that houses a large telescope.
Whats is an observatory?
Used to determine age of artifacts.
What is carbon-14?
Strongly magnetic piece of magnitite.
What is lodestonne?
Minerals, rock fragments, shells, leaves and organic remains are the 5 sediments that make up this.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Distance between identical points on back-to-back waves.
What is the wavelength?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
What are the 4 terrestrial planets?
Light and dark layers of sediment deposited.
What are varves?
Glassy, waxy, earthy, dull and resinous are the 5 categories of what?
What are metalic minerals?
Crystals interlock and connect sediment grains.
What is cementation?
Rapid flow of water back to the ocean.
What is undertow?
Earths evil twin.
What is Venus?
The equator is an example of this.
What are lines of latitude?
What is phosphorescence?
The forming of new minerals.
What is metamorphism?
Broad, relatively shallow underwater terrace.
What is the continental shelf?
This word means that a planet spins backward.
What is retrograde?