I believe A. Barnacles living on a whale's skin is an example of a particular symbiotic relationship.
One of the two ways minerals form is by: 1. crystallization of magma (cools inside the crust) or lava (cools & hardens on the surface) 2. crystallization of materials dissolved in water. When these liquids cool to a solid state, they form crystals.
The Moon is thought to have come from the Earth. In 1975, the giant impact hypothesis was put forward. This suggests that the Earth was hit by a planet about the size of Mars around the time of the formation of the solar system approximately 4.5 billion years ago, and the impact caused part of the outer layer of the Earth to spin off and form what is now the Moon.
The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.