Recent Earth Sciences Questions

• What is the difference between permineralization and petrification?

  3 hr 35 min ago - Petrification is the process of petrifying, calcification or ...

• Why do prevailing winds move in the pattern they do?

  3 hr 35 min ago - Prevailing winds move in their pattern due to the Rotation of...

• How are fossils formed and how are they used?

  3 hr 35 min ago - The term "fossil" is used for any trace of past life. Fossils...

• What causes the temperature to increase with height through the stratosphere and decrease with height through the troposphere?

  3 hr 36 min ago - Evaporation and transpiration cause the temperature to increa...

• What is the relative age of an igneous intrusion in a layer of sedimentry rock?

  3 hr 38 min ago - The relative age of the igneous intrusion in a layer of sedim...

• Is silver magnetic?

  3 hr 39 min ago - Silver is a soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has th...

• Are humans anthropoids?

  3 hr 39 min ago - Prosimians are a grouping of mammals that are defined by bein...

• What is it called when a mineral dissolves into the earth?

  3 hr 41 min ago - Minerals are sorted into 8 groups. Some common examples have ...

• What is the fossil record?

  3 hr 41 min ago - The fossil record refers to the total number of fossils that ...

• What is deepest part of earth on the planet?

  3 hr 43 min ago - The deepest part of the earth is the Pacific Ocean's Mariana ...

• What do rocks eat?

  3 hr 43 min ago - Rocks are formed, and they do not eat anything to survive or ...

• How to tell if a diamond is real?

  3 hr 44 min ago - Put the stone in your mouth and breathe on it. If the stone s...

• What birth stone or month is Amethyst?

  3 hr 44 min ago - Amethyst is the modern February birthstone and the accepted g...

• What are some Interesting facts about rock wallabies/?

  3 hr 45 min ago - The rock-wallabies are the wallabies of the genus Petrogale. ...

• What does gold plated mean?

  3 hr 45 min ago - Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold o...

• What is the deepest hole drilled in the world?

  3 hr 45 min ago - The deepest is "SG-3," a hole about nine inches wide which sn...

• What features distinguish?

  3 hr 45 min ago - Can you please be more specific? What features distinguish wh...

• What is the difference between a rock melting and a rock being heated up?

  3 hr 46 min ago - Hot lava is what a melting rock actually is; it is a lot hott...

• Which region caused the southern coastline to become irregular by rotating?

  3 hr 47 min ago - The region in southern California coastline was what caused t...

• How do scientists use the location of fossil discoveries to determine the order in which species lived on earth?

  3 hr 47 min ago - Fossils range in age from the youngest at the start of the Ho...

• Which was more difficult to determine (latitude or longitude) and why?

  3 hr 50 min ago - Longitude is more difficult to determine than latitude becaus...

• Which of the eras on the geologic time scale is divided into both periods and epochs?

  3 hr 50 min ago - All of geologic time, from the Earth's origin about 4600 mill...

• How does the controls on soil formation affect the soil?

  3 hr 51 min ago - Soil formation, or pedogenesis, is the combined effect of phy...

• What is the earths magnetic field?

  3 hr 51 min ago - The dipole moment, a measure of the intensity of the Earth's ...

• What are analogy fossils in extinction puddle?

  3 hr 52 min ago - The "puddle analogy", or "the sentient puddle" is an oft quot...

• Which latitudes would you expect to find high surface pressures at?

  3 hr 54 min ago - A high-pressure area is region where atmospheric pressure at ...

• What is the biggest store on earth?

  3 hr 55 min ago - Macy's on 34th Street and Madison Square Garden said that Mac...

• What is the oldest rock in California?

  3 hr 55 min ago - The oldest rocks preserved in California are metamorphic rock...

• How do different types of rocks affect soil formation?

  3 hr 55 min ago - Rocks affect soil formation depending on the type of rock. If...

• How often does earth's magnetic field completely reverse?

  3 hr 56 min ago - Earth’s magnetic field reverses completely every few thousand...

• What is a solution that is likely to produce Crystals if disturbed?

  3 hr 56 min ago - If you disturb the supersaturated solution of sodium acetate,...

• What are the three types of convergent plate boundries?

  3 hr 57 min ago - Oceanic-continental, Continental-continental and Oceanic-ocea...

• How does climate affect soil?

  3 hr 57 min ago - Climate determines vegetation cover, which in turn influences...

• What do divergent plates form?

  3 hr 58 min ago - Divergent plate boundaries are locations where plates are mov...

• Where is francium found?

  3 hr 58 min ago - Very small amounts of francium are found in uranium ores.The ...

• What is the device that records the ground movement caused by seismic wave?

  3 hr 58 min ago - Earthquakes generate seismic waves which can be detected with...

• What is an example of divergent plate boundary?

  3 hr 58 min ago - The middle of the Red Sea and the mid-ocean ridge (running th...

• What part is not a part of the water cycle?

  4 hr ago - Water, in its different forms, cycles continuously through th...

• What does it mean you breath on a diamond and it fogs up?

  4 hr 1 min ago - When you see your breath fog up a diamond it's condensing or ...

• How far below, in kilometers, are 50 percent of the gases that make up the atmosphere found?

  4 hr 1 min ago - The lowermost 12 to 18 km of the atmosphere, called the tropo...

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