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Question | Answer |
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Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance |
Acid Rain | Precipitation of relatively high acidity that is formed when airborne oxides of sulfer nitrogeon comebine with moisture and atmosphere. |
Conglomerate | A rock made of mineral and rock fragments. |
Crystal | A solid substance in which particles are aranged in an orderly repeatable pattern. |
Crystallization | The procces in which crystals are formed. |
Cubic | A crystal form characterized by three equal axes at right angles to each other. |
Evaporation | The conversion of a substance from a liquid to a gasious state. |
Fossil | The remains, impressions, or other evidence of living things perserved in rock. |
Hardness | The resistance of a surface of a mineral to scratching bt another substance. |
Hexagonal | A crystal characterized by three equal lateral axes intersected at 60 degrees and a vertical axes of veriable length at right angles. |
Igneous | A type of rock formed by the cooling and cystallazation of molted materials. |
Indigenous | Occuring naturally in a paticular place or region. |
Laser | Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. |
Lava | Molted rock that flows from valcanoes or earth fissures. |
Luster | The way a mineral reflects light. |
Magma | The hot liquid rock within earthes crust. |
Metallic Luster | Describes a mineral that is usually dark in color is always opaque evan on its thin edges and shines light polished metal. |
Metamorphic | A type of rock formed when igneous or sedementary or evan other metamorphic rocks are subjected to extreme heat and or pressure deep below earthes surface. |
Mineral | A natuarlly accuring solid inorganic substance with a definit chemical compisition and usually cystalline in form. |
Mohs scale of hardness | A scale that ranks the hardness of minerals relative to hardness of other minerals. |
Monoclinic | A cystal form charactorized by three unequal axes with one oblique intersection. |
Nonmetallic luster | Describes a mineral that is usually light colored and whose surface appers glassy greasy pearly silcky brilliant or dull. |
Orthorhomic | A crystal form characterized by three unequal axes at right angles to each other. |
Petrifacation | The proccess of petrafying or becoming a crystal. |
Piezoeletric | A type of electricity generated by applying pressure to crystalline substance such as quarts. |
Property | Any quality that serves to define an object material or relationship. |
Rock | A natural occuring inorganic solid usually comprised of a mixture od different materials and other materials. |
Sedimentary | A type of rock formed by the solidfication of layers of sediment. |
Silicon | One of the most abbundant elements on earth, its electrical properties enable it to be used in electronic devices. |
Streak | The color of fine powder of a mineral ubtaned by scratching or rubbing the mineral against a piece of unglazed ceramic tile. |
Tetragonal | A crytsal form characterized by three axes of right angles of which only the two lateral angles are equal. |
Triclinic | A crystal form characterized by unequal axes intersecting at obique angles. |
Weathering | The discoloration or breakdown of rocks and minerals due to the actio of water the atmosphere and organisms. |