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The most valuable precious metal
What is platinum
Deposits of sand, mineral fragments, or organic materials left by wind or water
What is sediments?
The final step of metallurgy
What is shaping?
The green form of beryl
What is emerald?
The type of mountain formed when molten rock erupted from a hole
What is a volcanic mountain?
Rock that consists of smooth pebbles embedded in hardened sand or clay
What is conglomerate rock?
The step you take during an experiment after you observe the changes in the variables
What is record and analyze your data?
The nutrient needed by plants for cell division, growth, and maturity
What is phosphorus?
The layer of solid rock below the soil
What is bedrock?
The type of limestone that forms from calcium-containing plankton remains
What is chalk-limestone?
A reddish-orange metal that is a good conductor of electricity
What is copper?
A model of design used for testing
What is a prototype?
A visible line left by a mineral when it is rubbed across unglazed porcelain
What is a streak?
The point on the earth's surface directly above where an earthquake begins
What is the epicenter?
The group of metals containing fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine
What are halides?
The process of manufacturing artificial crystals involves a seed crystal and nutrient material in a high-pressure vessel
What is hydrothermal synthesis?
Exhibited by a mineral that remains glowing after being exposed to ultraviolet light and then placed in the dark
What is phosphorescence?
The most common igneous rock which covers most of the ocean floor
What is basalt?
A variable in an experiment that is the same in all groups
What is a controlled variable?
A gypsum rock forms when it's components are dissolved in water and then the water is evaporated. The main category of sedimentary rock gypsum is in is
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
The type of rock that forms when magma solidifies
What is igneous?
Several experiments were used to test how temperature affects the growth rate of artificial crystals. The results showed that crystals grow faster in warmer temperatures. This is ________ reasoning.
What is inductive?
The term that describes magma bulging overlying rocks upward to produce a dome-like intrusion
What is laccolith?
Minerals are rated from softest to hardest on a scale of 1 to 10 on this
What is the Mohs scale?
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What can earthquake waves help us study
What is the Earth's interior?
Refined using blast furnaces
What is iron?
The group of metamorphic rocks that are made up of layers like the leaves of a book
What are foliated rocks?
When planning to perform an experiment to answer a question, the first thing you do is
What is clearly state the problem to be solved?
Predict what would happen if too many denitrifying bacteria were present in the soil
What is plants would grow faster because of insufficient nitrogen?
A 1 cubic centimeter sample of water has a mass of 1 gram. A 5 cubic centimeter sample of sylvite has a mass of 10 grams. The specific gravity of sylvite is
What is 5?
Rocks along one side move horizontally along the fault in this type of fault
What is a strike-slip fault?
An artificial gemstone that looks like a natural gemstone but has different chemical and physical properties is
What is a simulant gemstone?
When rocks are baked by contact with hot magma it is called
What is contact metamorphism?
Magnetite is a magnetic mineral that is used as a source of the metal iron. It is composed of iron bonded to oxygen, is black in color, and has cubic crystals. The mineral group that contains magnetite is
What is oxides?
The logic error that assumes a change in one factor caused a change in another factor only because the second change occurred first
What is post hoc fallacy?
A small amount of water is added to a sample of baking soda and no bubbles formed. A small amount of vinegar is added to a second sample of baking soda and bubbles formed. From this information you can conclude
Vinegar and baking soda react to form bubbles.
Considered the most reliable method for mathematically measuring an earthquake's strength
What is the moment magnitude scale?
The general term for a mass of volcanic rock beneath the surface
What is an igneous intrusion?
The scale used to measure the explosiveness of a volcanic eruption?
Volcanic Explosive Index (VEI)
When multiple scientists test the same scientific idea in different ways and all come to the same conclusion, the idea has
What is reproducibility?
The rocky surface layer of the earth
What is the crust?