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| What are the central parts to an atom? |
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| Protons, neutrons, and electrons |
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| What are the three types of bonding? |
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| Covalent Bond, metallic bond, and ionic Bond |
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Minerals that have the appearance of metals
- The appearance or quality of light reflected from the surface of a mineral. |
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| A diagnostic property of only a few minerals. |
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Powered colored minerals
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| The common characteristic shape |
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| What are the 5 characteristics of Minerals? |
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Solid
Naturally occurring
inorganic
orderly crystalline structure
Well defined chemical composition |
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| the tendency of a mineral to break along planes of weak bonding |
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| Minerals that were chemically bonded that are equally or nearly strong in all directions. |
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| An important property of matter, mass per unit volume |
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| The two most common elements of the earth's crust? |
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| When oxy and silicone is combined what do you get? |
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| The most basic building block, silicates |
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| What is the earth's storehouse of minerals? |
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| useful metallic minerals that can be mined at a profit |
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| Already identified deposits from minerals can be extracted for profit |
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| Allows us to see many of the interactions among the many components and processes of the earth system |
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| rock cycle with molten rock |
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| It forms by the melting that occurs primarily within the earth's crust and upper mantle |
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| When magma erupts to the earth's surface |
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| When molten rocks solidify the earths surface or at the surface following a volcanic eruption. It forms when magma cools and crystalizes |
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| Describes the overall appearance of an igneous rock. Describes the size and arrangement. |
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| Why is texture important? |
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| It allows geologist to make inferences about a rock's origin |
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| The different chemical compositions of texture? |
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| Glassy, Coarse-grained, fine-grained, Porphyritic |
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| What are rocks with composition between granite and basaltic have? |
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| Peridotite rocks composed of dark silicate minerals |
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| When the arrangement of minerals crystallize at a certain temperature cools? |
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A natural response of earth's minerals to a new environment.
- Transformation of rock |
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| What is mechanical weathering? |
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| When a rock is broken into smaller and smaller pieces |
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| When water freezes and expands? |
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| When large intrusive igneous rocks are exposed by erosion. Slabs begin to break loose like an onion |
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| What is chemical weathering? |
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| When the original rock is altered into substances that are stable in the surface environment |
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| What is sedimentary rocks? |
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| Rock formed from the weathered products of preexisting rocks that have been transported, deposited, and lithified |
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| Sediments originate as solid particles from weathered rocks such as igneous rocks? |
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| Detrital sedimentary rocks |
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| What is chemical sedimentary? |
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| Dissolved substances that are precipitated backs as solids |
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| The name given to rocks when sand-size grain previal |
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| When gravel size particles predominate, the rock is called? |
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| What are the two most common things when we look at igneous rocks? |
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| Texture and chemical compound |
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| What is the most common chemical weathering sedimentary rock? |
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| What is term to change form, process that leads to changes in the mineralogy, texture, and sometimes chemical composition? |
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| What is the most important thing about metamorphism? |
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| Temperature, pressure and water |
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| nearly flat arrangement of minerals grains or structural feathers |
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| Examples of foliated rock? |
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| What sedimentary rock morph into? |
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| Large nonfoliated equidimensional grains that are randomly oriented |
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| Thick ice mass that forms over hundreds or thousands of years. |
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| What are the erosion features? |
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| When a meltwater penetrates the cracks and joints along the rock floor of the glacier and freezes |
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| when rock fragments move over bedrock, they function like sandpaper to smooth and polish the surface below |
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| An all-embracing term for sediments of glacial origin, no matter when, where, or in what form they were deposited |
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| What is stratified drift? |
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| sorted according to size and weight of the fragments |
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| Deserts make up how much of the earth's land? |
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| Running water is responsible for what? |
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| what is one way wind erodes? |
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| Deflation, the lifting and removal of loose material |
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| What are the most noticeable result of deflation in shallow depressions? |
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| Extensive blankets of silt or windblown silt? |
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| winds that commonly deposit sand in mounds or ridges are called? |
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| What are ephemeral streams? |
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| Deserts that carry water only in response to rainfall. |
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