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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rock | hardest matirial in earths crust |
| fossil | decayed plants and animals in rock |
| gemstones | small deposites of igneous and metamorphic crystals |
| precious stones | known for beauty rarness and durability |
| ore | rock with inpurities |
| precious metals | known for their rareness beauty and durability |
| iron | most commonly used metal |
| copper | good cunductor of electricity and alloys of bronze and brass |
| fossil fuel | when coal is derived from fossils called fossil fuel |
| petrolium | (crude oil)dark flammable |
| cave | any holow space in the earths crust big enough for a human to enter |
| solution cave | formed by dissolving rocks and water (underground) |
| speleology | study of caves |
| magneic field | surrounds magnet |
| poles | end of magnet |
| electtro magnet | produced by an electrical current in the earths core |
| magnetosprere | magnetic field produced by earth |
| solar wind | stem of particles from suns surface |
| extrusiveintrusive | fine grained pumice obsidian and basaltcoarse grainded granite(quartz feldspar and mica) |
| mechanical sediments | formed by wind water sand ice...ect |
| chemical sediments | when water seeps through rocks picks up minerals |
| organic sediments | formed by dead plants of animals |
| foilatedunfoiliated | layered unlayered |