Word- building

a) State to what part of speech the following words belong and translate them into Russian:

science – scientist – scientific – scientifically; geology – geological – geologist; inhabit – inhabitant – inhabitable; mineralogy – mineralogist – mineralogical; develop – development – developed; compose – composer; composition; divide – division – divided; sculpt – sculpture – sculptor; evidence – evident – evidently; occur – occurrence – occurring.

Lexical exercises.

a) Give English equivalents of the following:

Расстояние; поверхность Земли; выходить на поверхность; происхождение пород; свойства и состав минералов; природный газ; натуральные ресурсы; внутренние и поверхностные процессы; выветривание и эрозия; континенты; климат; геологическая шкала времени; вулканические извержения.

b) Read and translate geological terms:

Sand; gravel; gravity; ice; rock; stream; land; mud; granite; glacier; eruption; to erupt; soil; earthquake; climate; pressure; weathering; to weather; sediment; sedimentary; arch; terrestrial; metamorphism; metamorphic; igneous; intrusive; extrusive; plutonic; volcanic.

P a r t II

Read and translate the following word combinations.

Formation of the Solar System; sequence of events; behavior of dust and gas; observation of stars; matter ejected from a star; the most abundant elements; gravitational attraction; under the influence of gravity; high-speed particles; gravitational collapse; stronger gravitational forces; small rocky spheres; extremely high pressure; nuclear fusion; terrestrial planets; outermost and innermost planets; entire mantle; heavy molten iron.

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