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Matter and Atomic Structure
Minerals
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary & Metamorphic rock
Miscellaneous
100
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substance by physical or chemical means
What is an element?
100
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a specific chemical composition and a definite crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
100
These type of rocks are formed from the crystallization of magma.
What are Igneous rocks.
100
What process creates sedimentary rock?
What is lithification?
100
An______represents the area in an atom where an electron is most likely to be found.
What is energy level.
200
This process is the change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
Which of the following is part of the definition of a mineral?
What is inorganic.
200
The two different types of igneous rocks
What are extrusive and Intrusive?
200
What are the best known features of Sedimentary rocks?
What are fossils?
200
2H2 + O2 = 2H2O describes.
What is the formation of water?
300
The part of an atom that is made up of protons and neutrons
What is a nucleus?
300
Minerals that contain silicon and oxygen, and usually one or more other elements, are known as?
What is silicates.
300
The elements oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium are found in this slushy mix of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
What are the three main types of Sedimentary rocks?
What are clastic, chemical, and organic?
300
This element on the periodic table.
What is hydrogen?
400
This type of igneous rock are light-colored, have high silica contents, and are rich in iron and magnesium.
What are Felsic rocks.
400
The most common minerals are often referred to as what?
What is rock-forming minerals.
400
The spontaneous process through which unstable nuclei emit radiation.
What is Radioactivity?
400
What creates a Metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
400
At this temperature it's absolute zero.
What is -273 degrees C
500
These minerals are associated with the right branch of Bowen’s reaction series.
What are Feldspar minerals?
500
Earth’s crust is made of how many minerals?
What is 3000.
500
This element is most abundant on Earth’s crust
What is oxygen?
500
What are the types of Metamorphism?
What are regional, contact and hydrothermal metamorphism?
500
a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant.
What is quantum physics