Recent Earth Sciences Questions

• Is silver magnetic?

  4 hr 45 min ago - Silver is a soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has th...

• Are humans anthropoids?

  4 hr 46 min ago - Prosimians are a grouping of mammals that are defined by bein...

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

  4 hr 47 min ago - Minerals are sorted into 8 groups. Some common examples have ...

• What is the fossil record?

  4 hr 48 min ago - The fossil record refers to the total number of fossils that ...

• What is deepest part of earth on the planet?

  4 hr 50 min ago - The deepest part of the earth is the Pacific Ocean's Mariana ...

• What do rocks eat?

  4 hr 50 min ago - Rocks are formed, and they do not eat anything to survive or ...

• How to tell if a diamond is real?

  4 hr 51 min ago - Put the stone in your mouth and breathe on it. If the stone s...

• What birth stone or month is Amethyst?

  4 hr 51 min ago - Amethyst is the modern February birthstone and the accepted g...

• What are some Interesting facts about rock wallabies/?

  4 hr 51 min ago - The rock-wallabies are the wallabies of the genus Petrogale. ...

• What does gold plated mean?

  4 hr 52 min ago - Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold o...

• What is the deepest hole drilled in the world?

  4 hr 52 min ago - The deepest is "SG-3," a hole about nine inches wide which sn...

• What features distinguish?

  4 hr 52 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?

  4 hr 53 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?

  4 hr 53 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?

  4 hr 53 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?

  4 hr 56 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?

  4 hr 56 min ago - All of geologic time, from the Earth's origin about 4600 mill...

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

  4 hr 58 min ago - Soil formation, or pedogenesis, is the combined effect of phy...

• What is the earths magnetic field?

  4 hr 58 min ago - The dipole moment, a measure of the intensity of the Earth's ...

• What are analogy fossils in extinction puddle?

  4 hr 58 min ago - The "puddle analogy", or "the sentient puddle" is an oft quot...

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

  5 hr 1 min ago - A high-pressure area is region where atmospheric pressure at ...

• What is the biggest store on earth?

  5 hr 2 min ago - Macy's on 34th Street and Madison Square Garden said that Mac...

• What is the oldest rock in California?

  5 hr 2 min ago - The oldest rocks preserved in California are metamorphic rock...

• How do different types of rocks affect soil formation?

  5 hr 2 min ago - Rocks affect soil formation depending on the type of rock. If...

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

  5 hr 2 min ago - Earth’s magnetic field reverses completely every few thousand...

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

  5 hr 2 min ago - If you disturb the supersaturated solution of sodium acetate,...

• What are the three types of convergent plate boundries?

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

• How does climate affect soil?

  5 hr 4 min ago - Climate determines vegetation cover, which in turn influences...

• What do divergent plates form?

  5 hr 4 min ago - Divergent plate boundaries are locations where plates are mov...

• Where is francium found?

  5 hr 4 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?

  5 hr 5 min ago - Earthquakes generate seismic waves which can be detected with...

• What is an example of divergent plate boundary?

  5 hr 5 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?

  5 hr 6 min ago - Water, in its different forms, cycles continuously through th...

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

  5 hr 8 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?

  5 hr 8 min ago - The lowermost 12 to 18 km of the atmosphere, called the tropo...

• What is the most abundent metal it the earth's crust?

  5 hr 9 min ago - Claus here to answer your question! Aluminum is the most abun...

• How does the water cycle affects plant growth?

  5 hr 9 min ago - In water cycle precipitation falls and is absorbed into the g...

• How can you tell if a diamond is really a diamond?

  5 hr 9 min ago - The best thing is getting it appraised. There is a fog test. ...

• What it the largest volcano in the world?

  5 hr 10 min ago - The largest volcano on earth is Mauna Loa on Hawai'i Big Isla...

• What is the most important weather phenomena occurs in the?

  5 hr 10 min ago - Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below t...

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