The single property that can be used to identify any mineral is ________.

Most asteroids inhabit the “asteroid belt” between the planets ________.

Along a large cone-shaped volcano, a ________ drainage network is expected.

If a geologist found preserved mud cracks, he or she could conclude that the environment in which they formed ________.

Ash and lava fragments that cascade down the sides of a volcano eventually settle and lithify to form an extrusive igneous rock called ________.

Compared with the continental crust, the oceanic crust is ________.

At transform plate boundaries, ________.

Summed over the entire surface of Earth, the rate of spreading at divergent boundaries is ________ lithospheric consumption at subduction zones.

Marine magnetic anomaly belts run parallel to ________.

The density of rocks is generally related to composition. Which of the following choices places rock compositions in order of increasing density?