science exam study guide
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- conic
- fa map projection that is made by trasferring the contents of the globe unto a cone
- electrons
- negative
- sulfates
- minerals that contain combinations of carbon and oxygen in their chemical sturcture
- Chinese
- invented magnetic compasses in the third century B.C.
- surface mining
- copper ores, bauxite
- neutrons
- parts of the atoms are located in nucleous
- florescent
- calcite/florite
- deep mined
- dimound,coal
- 40%
- the world's bromine is produced in Arkansas
- metamorphic rocks
- graphite/ tale
- latitude
- when writing coordinates this is always written first
- latitude
- the lines that are imaginary lines that are drawn around the Earth parallel to the equator
- longitude
- lines that are imaginary lines that pass through the poles
- quartz
- arkansas state mineral
- how you can differentiate between silicate and nonsilicate minerals
- silicate has a mixture of silicon and oxygen. non silicate has one or the other or neither
- true
- depressions have little lines inside the circle
- true
- all points along a contour line represent a single elevation
- talk
- number 1 on the Moh's hardness Scale
- landmark
- a place/building that can be moved
- magnetism
- magnetite/ pyrrhotite
- sulfides
- minerals that constain one or more elements, lead, iron, or nickel, combined with sulfur
- optical properties
- calcite
- religion
- what European maps focused on during the medieval period
- hot water solutions
- copper/ galena/ pyrite/ sulfur
- dimound mine
- arkansas had the first in the United States
- electrons
- parts of the atoms are located in shell
- limestones
- dolomite
- native elements
- minerals that are comosed of one element
- protons
- positive
- sandstone
- sedimentary/ clastic/ sand, silt, clay, calcite, silica, iron oxides
- conic
- good for mapping landmasses that have more west to east (North America) instead of north to south (South America)
- greeks
- were the first to believe the concept of a spherical Earth
- halides
- minerals that from when atoms of elements of fluorine, chlorine, iodine, or bromine combines with sodium, patassium, or calcium
- rotating iron core
- why the magnetic North Pole moves northwest at an average rate of 10km per year occurs
- neutrons
- neutral
- false
- a mineral's color is chaned by weathering its streak also changes
- streak
- the color of a mineral in powdered form
- mercator
- shows the Earth's latitude and longitude lines as straight, parallel lines
- dimound
- number 10 on the Moh's Hardness Scale
- conic
- the cone touches only one line of latitude and all the lines of longitude
- mercator
- shows the most distortion at the poles (Greenland)
- wobble in earths rotation
- why the geographic North Pole movs about 6m every 435 days occurs
- plutons
- feldspar/ quartz
- false
- closely spaced contour lines represent a gentle slope
- radioactivity
- zircun
- oxides
- minerals that form whtn an element, aluminum or iron, combines chemically with oxygen
- azimuthal projection
- a map projection that focuses on a certain location
- reference point
- an area that can't move
- bauxite
- has been mined in
- barite
- arkansas led the nation in the production for over 30 years
- taste
- halite
- hardness
- a mineral's resistance to being scratched
- evaporating saltwater
- gypsum/ halite
- to see enemy positions in WW1
- what photography originally was used for
- biotite mica, quartz, feldspar
- 3 minerals that make up granite
- chemical reaction
- calcite
- 90%
- how much silicate is in the earth
- pegmatites
- topaz
- protons
- parts of the atoms are located in nucleous
- does it have a crystalized structure or geometric shape//is it a solid//is it formed in nature//is it organtic//
- 4 questions you ask to see if the object you are looking at is a mineral
- granite
- igneous/ Frlsic/ muscovite mica or biotite mica, feldspar, and quartz//intrusive