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What differences religion, art, law from science?
Who is the founder of the natural philosophy?
1.-What is the name of our galaxy?
2.-How many stars does it approximately have?
3.-What does it consist of mostly?
1.-What is the diameter of the MW?
2.-Mass of the MW?
3.- How far from the center is the sun, in the MW?
4.-What kind of shape does the MW has when seen in edge view?
How many arms there are in the galaxy?
What are their names?
In which one is the Earth situated?
What is the name of the closest galaxies to the MW?
What does this man discovered?
Who is this man,
and what did he provide to Science?
What are some characteristics of Science?
Anaximander of Miletus, what did he do?
In Astronomy, what were his considerations about the celestial bodies
Who created this system, and what is it name?
Who is this man and what did he provided to science?
When does the expansion of the universe initiated?
What are the two major subdivisions of geology?
What is their difference?
designed the first?
discovered of Jupiter?
Johannes Kepler demonstrated that?
The Royal Society of London was established?
He published the first papers in Geology, about?
Our galaxy is part of the______?
And that group is part of a greater agglomeration of stars, the ________?
Nebulae?
Stars?
From smallest to largest star sizes?
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SUN??
The solar system is composed of?
Terrestrial planets?
Jovian planets?
Icy Planets?
Internal Structure of Rocky planets?
Jupiter natural satellites?
What is special about Io?
Saturn natural satellites?
Neptune largest natural satellite?
LARGEST ASTEROID?
FLYING MOUNTAINS?
COMETS CONSIST MOSTLY OF?
TYPES OF METEORITES?
SPACE DUST CONSIST MOSTLY OF??
Solar Nebulae Theory?
Kant- Laplace theory
Solar nebulae theory phases?
Mass of the Earth?
Density of Earth?
Radius of earth?
Crystallography?
Study of minerals composition, architecture, physical properties and occurence of minerals
Study of rocks, and subdisciplines
Study of Sediments
Study of fossils
Study of layers and bodies of rocks arrangements in Earths interior
Structural Geology
Geochemstry
Geochronology
Tectonics
Geophysics
Geomorphology
Seismology
Earth Formation phases
Outcrops
Earthquakes
When _____waves are used, the discontinuities in the subsurfaces corresponds to _______, it is possible to study ____ wave propagation in order to investigate the _______ architecture in the Earth interior.
The place where an eartquake actually happens is known as the___?
From the 2 types of wave function of the direction of seismic waves during an earthquake, which one travels in the Earth interior? and which one in the shallowest parts?
Which waves are produce during the energy discharged? (in an earthquake)
What are the types of BODY waves?
Two kinds of Surface waves?
Earth internal structure
Chemical Subdivisions
Earth Internal Structure
THE CORE
THE MANTLE
GUTTENBERG DISCONTINUITY LIES AT THE BOUNDARY OF WHAT TWO LAYERS?
THE CRUST
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE DISCONTINUITY THAT BOUNDS THE CRUST WITH THE MANTLE?
DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER TO THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH?
WHAT KEEPS THE INNER CORE SOLID(IN CONTRAST WITH THE OUTER CORE)?
INNER CORE DOMINATED BY? (CONSISTED OF)
MATTER STATE OF INNER CORE?
OUTER CORE, STATE?
AND IT IS DIRECTLY UNDER THE______DISCONTINUITY?
MESOSPHERE CORRESPONDS TO THE?
ASTHENOSPHERE CORRESPONDS?
LITHOSPHERE CORRESPONDS TO?
CHARACTERIZED BY?
ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH?
CRUST?
CORE?
WHAT IS WEATHERING?
BREAKDOWN OF SOLID ROCKS, FORMATION OF SEDIMENT AND NEW LANDFORMS, DOES NOT INVOLVE THE MOVEMENT OF MATERIALS, CORRESPONDS TO___?
WHAT IS MASS MOVEMENT?
WEATHERING FACTORS?
CLIMATE WEATHERING DEPENDS ON?
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION WEAHERING DEPENDS ON?
IS A??
IS A??
WHAT IS MECHANICAL WEATHERING?
BREAKDOWN INFLUENCED BY WIND,WATER,GLACIER AND GRAVITY IS WHAT KIND OF WEAHERING?
WHAT ARE THE MECHANISM OF MECHANICAL WEATHERING?
ARE TYPES OF?
WHAT IS JOINTING?
FROST WEDGING? WHAT IS IT?
WHAT IS EXFOLIATION ON ROCKS?
WHAT IS CHEMICAL WEATHERING?
SURFACE AREA IS A N IMPORTANT FACTOR OF __________WEATHERING?
SOLUTION/DISSOLUTION IN CHEMICAL WEATHERING REPRESENTS
HYDROLYSIS IN CHEMICAL WEATHERING OCCURS WHEN?
WHAT DOES HYDROLYSIS USUALLY LEADS TO FORMATION OF?
CHEMICAL WEATHERING: OXIDATION?
RUST IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF?
WHAT IS BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING?
BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING CAN BE______?
MECHANISMS OF BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING ARE?
MASS MOVEMENT FACTORS?
HOW DOES WATER AFFECTS MASS MOVEMENT?
MORE PLANTS, LESS ______
PLANTS REDUCES_____ FROM SOIL
IN GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES, THE MORE FRACTIONS THERE ARE THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MASS MOVEMENT_________?
WHAT DOES SOIL CREE DOES ON TREE TRUNKS?
SOIL CREEP INDICATORS?
REPRESENTS?
WHAT ARE SLUMPS?
TRIGGERED BY?
WHAT DOES SLIDE REPRESENT ON MASS MOVEMENT?
REPRESENTS?
FLOW IS FAST OR SLOW DOWNHILL?
IT CONTAINS?
WHAT DOES MUDFLOW CONTAINS?
WHAT DOES DEBRIS FLAW CONTAINS?
WHERE DOES LAHAR FLOWS RESULTS FROM?
WHAT ARE ROCKS?
WHAT IS A MINERAL?
WHAT IS A MINERALOID?
WHAT IS AN ATOM?
ATOMIC NUCLEI?
WHAT IS AN ELECTRON CLOUD?
ATOMIC #
MASS #
ISOTOPES?
WHAT IS A MOLECULE?
WHAT IS A COMPOUND?
WHAT IS AN ION?
WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES?
WHAT IS BONDIND?
TYPES OF BONDING?
WHAT ARE SOME MINERALS STUDY TECHNIQUES?
MINERAL CRYSTAL SYSTEM: WHAT IS A CRYSTAL?
CRYSTAL TWO SUBDIVISIONS?
I______ & A______
TRIGONAL CRYSTAL
MONOCLINIC
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC
COLOR
PHYSICAL PROPERTY
STREAK
NON-METALLIC LUSTRE
HARDNESS
ON MINERLAS PHYSICAL PROPERTY
WHAT SCALE IS USED TO MEASURE THE HARDNESS OF CRYSTALS?
DIAMOND IS THE # IN SCALE
TALC IS THE # IN SCALE
MOHS SCALE
FACES AND FORMS
CRYSTAL PHYSICAL PROPERTY
EUHEDRAL
SUBHEDRAL
ANHEDRAL
HABIT ON MINERAL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
TYPES OF HABIT?
HABIT TYPE?
WHAT KIND OF HABIT IS THIS?
WHAT KIND OF HABIT IS THIS?
WHAT KIND OF HABITAT IS THIS?
WHAT KIND OF HABIT IS THIS?
WHAT IS TWINNING?
WHAT IS CLEAVAGE?
TRANSPARENCY IN PHYSICAL PROPERTY
PARTING IN PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
MINERAL CLASSIFICATION
NON-SILICATES GROUP OF MINERAL CLASSIFICATION
NATIVE ELEMENTS
WHAT ARE THE THREE GROUPS
OXIDES
MINERAL CLASSIFICATION
FOUND IN ___TYPES OF ROCKS?
HALIDES
METALIC ELEMENTS AND_____
SULFIDE
S
SULFATES
(SO2)^2-
FOUND IN
CARBONATES
(CO3)^2-
SILICATES
(SiO4)^4-
CONSTITUDE ABOUT ___% OF MINERALS IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
WHAT IS THE COMPOSITION OF A SILICA TETRAHEDRA?
SUBDIVISIONS OF SILICA TETRAHEDRA
NESOSILICATES CHARACTERISTICS?
INOSILICATES CHARACTERISTICS
SOROSILICATES
ALSO DOUBLE CHAIN SILICATES
PHYLLOSILICATES
OR SHEET-SILLICATES
TECTOSILICATES
ALSO FRAMEWORK SILICATES
CYCLOSILICATES
ALSO RING SILICATES
HOW ARE IGNEOUS ROCKS FORM?
WHAT IS MAGMA?
WHICH ONE OF THESE COOLS FASTER?
LAVA OR MAGMA
WHAT IS LAVA?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN TEMPERATURE BETWEEN LAVA AND MAGMA?
IGNEOUS ROCKS CLASSIFICATION
WHAT IS CRYSTALLINITY BASED ON?
WHAT IS NUCLEATION?
WHAT ARE THE TWO GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS?
CRYSTALLINITY REFERS TO
TREE SUBDIVISIONS OF CRYSTALLINITY ARE?
HOLOHYALLINE
GLASS
HOLOCYSTALLINE
MINERALS
HYPOHYALINE OR HYPOCRYSTALLINE
BOTH
GRAIN SIZE CLASSIFICATION
GRAIN SIZE DIFFERENT TEXTURES ARE?
PHANERITIC TEXTURE
APHANERITIC TEXTURE
e.g.BASALT
GLASSY TEXTURE
FASTEST
FRAGMENTAL TEXTURE
MAFIC MINERALS
FELSIC MINERALS
ROCK FORMING MAFIC MINERALS
THERE ARE 4
OLIVINE ON THE SUBDIVISON OF SILICATES IT IS A___?
(SiO4)^4-
PYROXENES, SUBDIVISION
OF SILICATES, SINGLE-______
AMPHIBOLES, ALSO DOUBLE-______ SILICATES
BIOTITE, ALSO SHEET SILICATE
FELSIC GROUP
FELSIC: PLAGIOCLASE FELDSPAR
ALSO FRAMWORK SILICATES
FELSIC GROUP:MUSCOVITE
FELSIC GROUP:QUARTZ
FRAMEWORK SILICATES
FELSIC ROCKS:
GENERAL COLOR?
RICH IN?
COMPOSED OF?
FORM THROUGH?
EXAMPLES?
INTERMEDIATE ROCKS:
MIXTURE OF?
FORM FROM?
FELDSPAR RICH IN?
MAFIC ROCKS:
COLOR?
RICH IN FELDSPAR?
DOMINATED BY?
ULTRA MAFIC ROCKS:
COLOR?
COMINATED BY?
HIGHEST?
FORM FROM WHICH MAGMA?
EXTRUSIVE ARE FORM
INTRUSIVE ARE FORM
EXTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS
EXPLOSIVE
EXTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS
NON-EXPLOSIVE
EXTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS TEXTURE
