Geology

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain why shorelines are considered dynamic environments including the factors that influence shorelines, the different types of coasts, strategies for dealing with shoreline erosion problems, the basic structure and characteristics of hurricanes, and causes of tides.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the nature of volcanoes including key characteristics and features, types of volcanoes and volcanic landforms, types of eruptions, the hazards associated with volcanoes, types of volcanic activities, and the techniques used to monitor volcanic activity.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the process of weathering including categories of weathering, the role of water in weathering, factors that influence weathering, the relationship between soil and weathering, formation and classes of soil, and the human impact on soil.