EARTH SCIENCES QUESTIONS
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Which of these attributes describes the powder left behind when a mineral is rubbed on white porcelain?
What is a mineral's habit?
Under the Dana classification system, what class of mineral comprises about 95 percent of them?
Minerals are solids with crystal structures. According to the International Mineralogical Association, how many minerals are there, roughly?
Eight elements make up more than 98 per cent of all the world's rocks in the world. What is the most common element by far, making up 46.5 percent of the world's rocks?
The most recent eon is the only one not part of the Precambrian, and it is divided into three eras, the most recent of which is the one in which we live. What eon is this?
The Phanerozoic Eon is divided into three eras, the most recent of which started 65 million years ago. In which era do we live?
This era started about 570 million years ago and ended about 240 million years ago, plenty of time for the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. What was it?
It was also when the continents split apart. Divided into the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, what era was the age of the dinosaurs, lasting from 240 million years ago to 65 million years ago?
The Tertiary Period is divided into five epochs: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene, while the Quaternary Period consists of the Pleistocene and the Holocene. What era did all this happen in?
Your compass doesn't point north, technically. Instead, it points to the magnetic north pole, which in 2005 is near Ellef Ringnes Island in what country?
What angle is the difference between magnetic north and true north?
What creates an astrobleme?
Also known as the polar aurora, what phenomenon is created when the solar wind gets kicked away by the Van Allen belts?
At the centre of our Earth is its core: an inner solid core and an outer liquid core. The core even has its own spin. But what two elements compose most of the Earth's core?
What layer of the earth, the nearest to the top, is about 30 miles thick, depending on where you are?
What carbonate mineral is the green stuff you see on copper roofs eventually?
One of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust is a nearly pure silicon dioxide. Purple amethyst and most sand are made of this mineral, which the ancients called rock crystal. What is it called today?
Amethyst is a crystalline example of this, while the noncrystalline is usually called chalcedony, from which we get agate, jasper and carnelian. What is it?
Arenology is the study of this, which is black in Hawaii because it is made from basalt rather than from silica in the form of quartz. What?
What is a mineral's habit?
Under the Dana classification system, what class of mineral comprises about 95 percent of them?
Minerals are solids with crystal structures. According to the International Mineralogical Association, how many minerals are there, roughly?
Eight elements make up more than 98 per cent of all the world's rocks in the world. What is the most common element by far, making up 46.5 percent of the world's rocks?
The most recent eon is the only one not part of the Precambrian, and it is divided into three eras, the most recent of which is the one in which we live. What eon is this?
The Phanerozoic Eon is divided into three eras, the most recent of which started 65 million years ago. In which era do we live?
This era started about 570 million years ago and ended about 240 million years ago, plenty of time for the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. What was it?
It was also when the continents split apart. Divided into the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, what era was the age of the dinosaurs, lasting from 240 million years ago to 65 million years ago?
The Tertiary Period is divided into five epochs: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene, while the Quaternary Period consists of the Pleistocene and the Holocene. What era did all this happen in?
Your compass doesn't point north, technically. Instead, it points to the magnetic north pole, which in 2005 is near Ellef Ringnes Island in what country?
What angle is the difference between magnetic north and true north?
What creates an astrobleme?
Also known as the polar aurora, what phenomenon is created when the solar wind gets kicked away by the Van Allen belts?
At the centre of our Earth is its core: an inner solid core and an outer liquid core. The core even has its own spin. But what two elements compose most of the Earth's core?
What layer of the earth, the nearest to the top, is about 30 miles thick, depending on where you are?
What carbonate mineral is the green stuff you see on copper roofs eventually?
One of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust is a nearly pure silicon dioxide. Purple amethyst and most sand are made of this mineral, which the ancients called rock crystal. What is it called today?
Amethyst is a crystalline example of this, while the noncrystalline is usually called chalcedony, from which we get agate, jasper and carnelian. What is it?
Arenology is the study of this, which is black in Hawaii because it is made from basalt rather than from silica in the form of quartz. What?