What are maria and how are they formed?
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The reason why they are more prevelant on the near side of the moon is because the Earth shields that side from meteoric impacts.\n\nSince the same side always faces Earth, the other side doesn't have the protection of the massive earth to suck up all the inbound meteors.  Thus, there are more impacts on the far side of the moon and more craters and less maria.
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1. it forms in nature\n2. it is a solid\n3. it has a definite chemical makeup\n4. it has a crystal structure
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You are looking for the Cnidaria corals I believe. In the early Paleozoic (cambrian to silurian) they diversified into tabulate corals, rugose corals, and heliolitid corals. All these forms were wiped out at the end of the Permian Period, in a mass extinction event that claimed something like 95% of all marine invertebrate species.\n\nDescriptions of these types of corals are linked in this page:\nhttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cnidariafr.html\n\n\nTHis page may also be a big help to you:\nhttp://www.paleoportal.org/fossil_gallery/taxon.php?taxon_id=55
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When the egg and the sperm fuse (in sexual reproduction) a single cell is formed.  That cell divides and divides and keeps on dividing until a full sized critter or plant is formed.\n\nSingle celled creatures reproduce by splitting in half to make two new critters.
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Trish is 31yrs old (born December 18,1975) and Maria is 26yrs.old (born May 9 1980).Hope that helps.
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rocks are made up of minerals
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Metamorphic rocks are formed when other kinds of rocks are changed by great heat and pressure inside the earth. The word "metamorphic" means changed. Think of metamorphic rocks as recycled rocks. When igneous, sedimentary or even metamorphic rocks get buried deep beneath the surface of the earth, over millions of years the heat and pressure inside the earth change them into something else. Limestone can be changed to marble, sandstone can be changed into quartzite, and shale can be changed to slate. It's just another example of how the earth is constantly changing!\n\n=)
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A island is formed when underwater volcanoes erupt and cool rapidly building the hot magma onto the molten rock.  Eventually the rock keeps building upon itself and a island is risen after many years.
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The origin of the eukaryotic cell was a milestone in the evolution of life, since they include all complex cells and multi-cellular organisms. The timing of this series of events is hard to determine; Knoll (1992) suggests they developed approximately 1.6 - 2.1 billion years ago. Fossils that are clearly related to modern groups start appearing around 800 million years ago.\n\nrRNA trees constructed during the 1980s and 1990s left most eukaryotes in an unresolved "crown" group (not technically a true crown), which was usually divided by the form of the mitochondrial cristae. The few groups that lack mitochondria branched separately and so the absence was believed to be primitive, but this is now considered an artifact of long branch attraction and they are known to have lost them secondarily.\n\nTrees based on actin and other genes have painted a different and more complete picture. Most eukaryotes are now included in several supergroups:\n\nOpisthokonts Animals, fungi, choanoflagellates, etc. \nAmoebozoa Most lobose amoebae and slime moulds \nRhizaria Various amoeboid protozoa \nExcavates Various flagellate protozoa \nArchaeplastida Land plants, green and red algae \nHeterokonts Brown algae, diatoms, water molds, etc. \nAlveolates Ciliates, Apicomplexa, dinoflagellates, etc. \n\nThe heterokonts and alveolates may be part of a larger group that is ancestrally photosynthetic, called the chromalveolates, but this remains contentious. Otherwise the relationships between the different supergroups are mostly uncertain, and in particular there is dispute about where the root of the evolutionary tree belongs, and as a result what the earliest eukaryotes were like. A few small protist groups have not been related to any of the major supergroups, notably the centrohelids, apusozoans, and ebriids.\n\nEukaryotes are closely related to archaea, at least in terms of nuclear DNA and genetic machinery. In other respects, such as membrane composition, they are similar to eubacteria. Three main explanations for this have been proposed:\n\nEukaryotes resulted from the complete fusion of two or more cells, the cytoplasm forming from a eubacterium and the nucleus from an archaeon (alternatively a virus). \nEukaryotes developed from Archaea, and acquired their eubacterial characteristics from the proto-mitochondrion. \nEukaryotes and Archaea developed separately from a modified eubacterium. \nThe origin of the endomembrane system and mitochondria are also disputed. The phagotrophic hypothesis states the membranes originated with the development of endocytosis and later specialized; mitochondria were acquired by ingestion, like plastids. The syntrophic hypothesis states that the proto-eukaryote relied on the proto-mitochondrion for food, and so ultimately grew to surround it; the membranes originate later, in part thanks to mitochondrial genes (the hydrogen hypothesis is one particular version).
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they are forms of water or precipitation
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It becomes rock on the surface of the ocean floor. It is eventually carried further & further away.\n\nSome older rock created by this process has already been "recycled" in the rock cycle; it became molten when it was subducted under continental plates.\n\nAn interesting fact is that as new rock is being created at the Mid Atlantic Ridge, the earth's magnetic field is being recorded right into the rocks. Any time there is a change in the direction of the earth's magnetic field it has been recorded.\n\n:)
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It forms the embryo.  The rest of the blastocyst forms the placenta, and the connective tissue to the mother
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Here's one of the easiest examples to see, the gradual sympatric speciation of Globigerinoides trilobus to Globigerinoides bisphericus to Praeorbulina sicana to Orbulina universa (incredibly abundant planktic foraminifera) over several million years. \n\nNow what is your definition of a 'transitional form'? (you have left this very vaguely defined). Most specation is allopatric (occurs in a geographically very restricted subset of the population) and  geologically-rapid (evidenced by observations of evolution and speciation in living populations). The very highest geologic resolution available is in the 1000's of years. But due to the nature of the geologic record, most fossil groups have a much patchier record than this.\n\nAt an inter-species level, there are an overwhelming abundance of examples of 'transitional forms'. The fossil record of hundreds of thousands of species shows copious systematic change from one species/group to the next up the geological column. However, as you are a creationist and are new to asking questions about evolution, I will wait to see what your intellectual honesty and integrity is like before I spend time and effort writing any more detailed answers. Paleontologist.
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The Magnolia flower has a number of features not found in many other flowers. Firstly the flower parts are in spirals not in whorls (rings). There are no green sepals just lots of white petal-like things (many more than the usual 3-5 that most flowering plants have), then lots of spirally-arranged stamens, then lots of free ovaries, also in a spiral. They are pollinated by beetles. Each ovary becomes a small fruit, with the entire fruiting structure somewhat cone-like. Each small fruit opens separately to release one seed. The seed has a fleshy coat called a sarcotesta.
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hi,\nactually they are females from the planet kimonku but when they came to earth they disguised themselves as males in a pop group.\nhopes that helps!
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Limestone Formation 101:\n\n1.) Ocean organisms that contain calcium carbonate in their shells (shellfish or forams)die & settle to the bottom of the ocean floor.\n2.) At certain depths within the ocean, calcium carbonate begins to dissolve.\n3.)Deposits build up over time (millions of years)\n4.)Oceans transgress & regress (move inland & back out again) placing layer upon layer down over time.\n5.)All the layering & pressure from the ocean above causes the dissolved CaCO3 to harden into rock.\n6.)Sometimes pieces of shells are included in the rock (fossiliferous limestone - containing fossils)\n7.)Poof...There you have the recipe for limestone.
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Wow, this would take a book to explain in detail!  I'll try to explain as briefly as I can. \n\nMost minerals are crystals*.  \n\nCrystals are basically formed by an arrangement of atoms in a pattern that repeats itself in 3D.  They start as a small cluster of atoms which grows into a recognisable crystal as more atoms are attracted by the electrical forces of those already in the crystal structure.  \n\nCrystals are formed mainly from molten solids (such as in molten magma) and solution (in water) and less often, from vapors (i.e. gases).  \n\n* Some minerals are not crystalline.  E.g. Opal, Obsidian.  These exhibit an amorphous character, meaning they have no crystal form or structure.  \n\nHope that helps a little!