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vocabulary
minerals
Reclyling
Mining
Misc
100
pure substances that cannot be broken down by ordinary chemical means
What is element
100
Igneous rock that cools very slowly has a ________ grain texture
What is coarse
100
The difference between recycling and conserving
recycling is to make a new product, conserving is using less of
100
Two types of mining
What is surface and subsurface
100
What is the difference of longitude and latitude
What is longitude is east and west while latitude is north and south
200
A resource found in nature
What is a natural resource
200
Two main groups of minerals
What is silicate and nonsilicate
200
A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate it is consumed, a resource that is consumed faster than it can be replaced
What are nonrenewable and nonrenewable resources
200
A mineral deposit large and pure enough to be mined for profit.
What is ore
200
Two ways that rocks were used by early humans
What is Tools,weapons,and hammers
300
Streak is the color that a mineral leaves behind on another substance
What is streak
300
Some uses for metallic minerals
What is electronic equitment,spacecraft, automobiles
300
Some items that can be recycled
What is some plastics, cardboard, glass, paper, cans, and bottles
300
The process of returning land to it's original state after mining
What is reclamation
300
Geothermal energy
What is the energy produced by heat within the earth
400
geology is the origin, history, structure of the Earth, and the process that shaped the earth
What is Geology
400
the way a surface reflects light
What is luster
400
Examples of renewable resources
What is paper, bottles, and cans
400
The most characteristic property of sedimentary rock
What is stratification
400
hydroelectric energy
What is electrical energy produced by falling water
500
a map projection that is made by moving the surface features of the globe into a cylinder
What is cylindrical Projection
500
The seven mineral properties
What is luster,hardness, cleavage, streak, color, density, fracture
500
Three ways to conserve natural resources
What is turn off lights when you leave a room, turn off faucet when you are brushing your teeth, and take shorter showers
500
Three types of models
What is conceptual, mathematical, and physical
500
The four main branches of earth science
What is astronomy, meteorology,oceanography, geology,