Facts By Category:  » Physics  » Astronomy  » Chemistry  » Biology  » Mathematics  » Geology  » Engineering  » Medicine  » Science   by keyword search:       ScienceIQ Team:  »Writers & Editors Geology: Featured Facts Igneous Rocks, Born of Fire Geology / Rocks Rocks are naturally occurring solid mixtures of substances primarily made of minerals. There are three kinds of rock on earth - igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock forms from continue reading this fact A Hurricane In Brazil? Geology / Weather Hurricanes are terrifying. They rip trees right out of the ground, hurl cars into the air, and flatten houses. Their winds can blow faster than 100 mph. Some hurricanes have been known to pull a wall continue reading this fact What Causes The Blue Color That Sometimes Appears In Snow And Ice? Geology / Weather Generally, snow and ice present us with a uniformly white face. This is because most all of the visible light striking the snow or ice surface is reflected back without any particular preference for a continue reading this fact All Facts Earth Measurement: The Richter Magnitude Scale What is Geodesy? Earthquakes: Earthquake Weather? Silent Earthquakes The San Andreas Fault Was That The Big One? Depends On How You Measured It. When This Lake 'Burps,' Better Watch Out! Energy: Fossil Energy - The Basics Natural Gas - The Blue Flame There's Oil Down There Environment: The Hole Scoop on Ozone What is Haze? Features: A Continent In Deep Freeze A National Park of Caves A River of Sand Bryce Canyon Crater Lake Devils Postpile National Monument Geology Played Key Role in the End of the Civil War Heading For The Badlands Salty Remnants At Death Valley's Badwater The Importance of Cave and Karst Systems What's So Bad About The Badlands? White Sands National Monument Geodynamics: Flipping Magnetic Fields Is Earth Getting Fatter Around the Belt? Landslides and Mudflows Pointing North Under The Crust Water In The Ground What are Hoodoos? Glaciers: Arctic Carbon a Potential Wild Card in Climate Change Scenarios Glaciers: Rivers of Ice Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes The World's Biggest Popsicle Global Climate Change: Antarctica and Climate Change CALIPSO in 2004 Distant Mountains Influence River Levels 50 Years Later Finding Ice In The Rocks--Evidence Of Earth's Ice Ages Getting Burned By Acid Rain Global Warming? How Do We Predict The Climate--100,000 Years Ago? NASA Explains Dust Bowl Drought Surprise! Lightning Has Big Effect On Atmospheric Chemistry The Good, the Bad and the Ozone What Are The Differences Between Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Warming, And Climate Change? What Causes Ice Ages....Or Global Warming? Will Runaway Water Warm the World? Minerals and Gems: All That Glitters Diamonds Improved by Irradiation? Our Most Abundant Fossil Fuel Robin's Egg Blue Rock, Mineral, Crystal, or Gemstone? The Mineral Chalcedony You, Graphite and Diamonds Oceans: A Big, Big Wave A Undersea View of Our Earth's Geography Is the Dead Sea really dead? Is The Sea Really On The Level? Seamounts - Underwater Mountains What is an Estuary? Plate Tectonics: Pangea Plate Tectonics Rocks: Igneous Rocks, Born of Fire Metamorphic Rock Sedimentary Rock Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Zeolites: The Secret Ingredient Thermal: Old Faithful - Thar She Blows! Volcanos: 1816 - The Year Without A Summer A Voggy Day On The Big Island Haleakala Crater Pyroclastic Flows: Deadly Rivers of Rock Submarine Volcanoes Types of Volcanoes What is Volcanic Ash? Weather: A Great Sunset Takes A Few Clouds A Hurricane In Brazil? How Much Water in an Inch of Snow? Hurricanes, The Basics Lightning Striking Again Man Made Clouds Predicting Floods The Hydrology of Drought The Importance Of Clouds And Aerosols To Climate Change The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Tornadoes Wetter not Necessarily Better in Amazon Basin What Are The Dangers Of Lightning? What Are The Key Ingredients For An Avalanche? What Causes The Blue Color That Sometimes Appears In Snow And Ice? What Is Air Pressure? What Is The Most Damaging Hazard From A Hurricane? What's In A Name? Who Named The Cloud Types? Why Don't We Try To Destroy Tropical Cyclones? Home | About Us / Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 2002-2010 ScienceIQ.com - All Rights Reserved