Planetary Properties - 4 = Planetary Characteristics Concept

Students learn to identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and trace quartz through the complete rock cycle. Connects geological processes to planetary surface formation and comparative planetology.

A steel ball sinks slowly into Silly Putty over the course of a lecture, modeling Earth's mantle — solid on short timescales (seismic waves propagate through it) but fluid on …