GEOLOGY

• James Hutton is considered the Father of Modern Geology
• Geological Hazards


  Catastrophic events caused by natural geological processes that impact human activities, resulting in loss of life, injury, or economic loss
• Magnetic Declination

  The angle of difference between true north and magnetic north
• Geology

  The primary Earth Science that looks at how the physical Earth has been formed, its structure and composition, and the types of processes acting on it
• Fault

  A crack in the Earth's lithosphere that occurs between two pieces of rock
• 8 elements represent as much as 99.5% of the Earth's crust's chemical composition- TRUE
• Sedimentary Rock


  Formed from deposits of pre-existing rocks or pieces of once-living organisms that accumulate on the Earth's surface
• Plate Tectonics

  A theory that explains how the earth's surface is made of large rocky pieces that move and change shape over time
• Fold


  An undulation or waves in the stratified rocks of Earth's crust
• Coal


  Formed by the decomposition of organic (vegetable) matter under high pressure and heat