ASBOG Fundamentals of Geology Exam Spring Review Questions And Answers

ASBOG Fundamentals of Geology Exam Spring Review Questions And Answers NOTE: These are terminologies/facts/ideas (anything that might be useful to know for the FG ASBOG exam). I'm pulling these cards from textbooks that are listed as study material on the ASBOG website. The first cards 77 cards are from the first 100 pages of the Physical Geology textbook, and many are copied and pasted in directly. Up to card 96 is from page 149 in the textbook What is Geology? - ANS-In its broadest sense, geology is the study of Earth — its interior and its exterior surface, the rocks and other materials that are around us, the processes that have resulted in the formation of those materials, the water that flows over the surface and lies underground, the changes that have taken place over the vastness of geological time, and the changes that we can anticipate will take place in the near future. Igneous rocks for from? - ANS-magma A mineral is a ? - ANS-naturally occurring combination of specific elements that are arranged in a particular repeating three-dimensional structure or lattice Difference between a mineral and a rock? - ANS-A mineral is a pure substance with a specific composition and structure, while a rock is typically a mixture of several different minerals (although a few types of rock may include only one type of mineral) Earth's core consists mostly of? - ANS-Earth's core consists mostly of iron The outer core is a solid or a liquid? - ANS-liquid The inner core is hotter than the outer core, but is it a liquid? - ANS