Exercise  1.

Write a mini-text on any natural science. Use connectives:

First, second, moreover, as well as, not only…but, on the one hand…, on the other hand…as well, too, besides, both…and.

                                                    Geology

1. The Earth in the Solar System.

2. Earth materials. Earth processes. Nature and origin of structural features of the

earth‘s crust. Mechanics of deformation.

3. Connections between geologic time, earth materials, and geologic forces that

create and modify minerals, rocks, landforms, continents, etc.

4. Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

5. Formation of minerals and mineral deposits. Origin, geologic occurrence, and

distribution of important mineral deposits of the world.

6. Water resources. Hydrologic cycle.

7. Physical, chemical, biological and geological features and processes operating

in the oceans.