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There are a lot of ways to tell one mineral from another; color and shape are good indicators but they can deceive you. Mineralogists (people who study minerals) have other ways to test samples to see ...

Make three different saturated solutions and see how different minerals form crystals over time.:It is an educational content by education.com.By clicking on the title of this resource, you will be re ...

How can scientists figure out what a dinosaur’s footprints looked like? When a dinosaur walked near a stream, it may have left footprints imprinted in the earth. If the stream the footprints flooded, ...

In this project three different methods of testing turbidity in water will be compared, the secchi disk, spectrophotometer, and turbidity test kit. Turbidity is caused by suspended particles that scat ...

Water has power! It has the power to shape the surface of the Earth. Water can change one landform by washing away sediment and then depositing it somewhere else to create a new landform. How are new ...

The formation of stalagmites and stalactites happens through the capillary action between porous rocks and water rich in minerals. The rocks attract the water and the moisture accumulates until gravit ...

Despite what early explorers thought, the world is definitely not flat!This includes land masses and the ocean floor.Just as there are mountains, valleys, and plains on dry land, the ocean floor is co ...

Some minerals are harder than others because of how strongly their atoms are bound together at the molecular level. How do we find out which minerals are harder and which are softer?It is an education ...

Obsidian is basically “unpopped” pumice: obsidian and pumice are igneous rocks that are made out of the same material, but because of the way it’s formed inside the volcano, pumice looks very differen ...

The goal of this project was to examine the ways in which solar radiation affects the heat of two different surfaces, land and water.It is an educational content by education.com.By clicking on the ti ...