- 1地質學
Geology is the science that studies the rocks, the soil, and the other materials that make up the Earth, and how they have changed since the Earth was formed. It asks: what is under our feet, how old is it, how did mountains rise, why do volcanoes sit in a line, where did this fossil live? Time in geology is huge. A “short” time may be a million years. It sits next to geography but is not the same subject. Geography looks at places, people, climate, and how we live on the land. Geology looks down and back — into the ground and into deep time. You can also use it for the rock-story of a place (“the geology of this island is young”), not only for the school subject.
From the word’s history
From geo- + -logy, partly after New Latin geōlogia, from Greek γεω- 'earth' + -λογία.
由希臘文 geo-「大地」加 -logy「…學」組成。
組成From geo- + -logy, partly after Renaissance Latin geōlogia: Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + Latin -logia (“the study of”), from Ancient Greek -λογία. So: the study of the Earth (as rock and deep change).
同家族的字
- geologista person who studies this science
- geologicalthe adjective form
- biologyshares -logy, from Greek for a field of study
- geographyshares geo-, from Greek for earth
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
geologynoun/d͡ʒɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
- 1
The science that studies the structure of the Earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.
- 2
The geological structure of a region.
- the geology of the Alps
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。