• Question: if someone studies mountains what are they called ?? what is a persons name is they study rocks !!

    Asked by stary to Drew, Amy on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Drew Rae

      Drew Rae answered on 21 Jun 2011:


      People who study what the earth is made of, and how it is formed, are called Geologists (sometimes “Earth Scientists”). So it is the same name for both!

    • Photo: Amy MacQueen

      Amy MacQueen answered on 21 Jun 2011:


      Hi!

      Its an orologist…and a geologist studies rocks and a physical geographer could claim they do a bit of both!!

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