Earth Sciences & Geology

Help With Earth Science - Rocks?!

Can anyone help me with this? Or some of it? Please and thanks a lot. Which are the he minerals below that you would be most likely to find in a felsic igneous rock, such as granite? Quartz SiO2 Ol

What are the four major igneous rock groups

...based on magma temperature? This is a homework question, would Felsic, intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic sound right?-Yes, felsic, intermediate, mafic and ultramafic are the for major igneous ro

Please help???? Earth science??

What do you think happens to the temperature of the earth as you move form the surface to the center(outer core)? what do you think happens to the density of the earth as you move form the surface to

Why is the population growth rate in the world a problem? What do you feel can be done to control it

Because its growing at ~2% per year.Which sounds small until you realize that it means that the population doubles about every 40 years.So there will be about 4X as many people when you are old as the

Precipitation Depends on what two factors

PLZ give me an answer. i have a quiz tomaro!-The amount of moisture in the air, and the temperature

My dad talked to me about earthquakes, so I just want to know, can an earthquake take down a mansion OR apt.

It could, but it all depends on the strength of the earthquake, how close the building is to the epicenter, and how the building is constructed.-If it is the right magnitude and the structure of the a

If the earth is 4.6 billions years old and humans have been on earth for 100,000 years, what is the percentage

REALLY NEED HELP PLEASE AND THANK YOU and if you could how to get the work i would appreciate it thank you-all you have to do is divide the years humans have been on the earth by the age and then mult

How long have North Carolina been having earthquakes

I am from NC and never in my life felt any earth quakes and then about seven years ago I moved to Memphis, TN and then to Peru South America. I felt an earthquake for the first time in my life when I

HEY! HEY, YOU GEOLOGY PERSON! You should really answer this...

Its a really easy question, honest. Just tell me processes that would cause the category of a rock to be ambiguous....between igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary I mean. Example: a volcano explodes

How did the earth become aerobic

Aerobic is being used as synonomous with oxygen; when plants started to photosynthesize carbon dioxide and water into sugar and produce oxygen, with sunlight enerfgy from the sun, the earths atmospher

What causes oil to float on water

There are two factors at play here. The first is that oil and water are not miscible (they dont mix) due to the polarity of water and the hydrophobic properties of oil. The second is buoyancy, water i

How long will it take for our ozone to reach a critical level to where the sun will burn us up

i figure it is just a metter of time... but how much time do we have. will we get to wear respirators for a period(cause of the toxicity of the polution) of time before we all burn up?-The ozone layer

If you pour oil on the water then what is your 1.)generalization 2.) conclusion

Generalization, is ,..Oil floats on water,..Conclusions are,..Water & oil do not mix, & oil is lighter than water,..-You are violating EPA laws and should be arrested.

How would the earth look if it the poles shifted and the earth turned upside down

Im serious about this so please no smart remarks. It happens every thousand years or so and I was wondering what its gonna look like. I was thinking about making a model of the earth and seeing what i

What are formed by Orogeny

Mountains