ELS (2nd Grading) Flashcards
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contains metals and intermetallic elements, semimetals, nonmetals, or natural silver, alloys, and constituents of a few rare meteorites.
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Native Element Class
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It forms in areas with high evaporation rates and where salty waters slowly evaporate.
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Sulphate Class
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process by which an organism produces its own kind to ensure that its species lives on
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Reproduction
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Female and male sex cell
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Gametes
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NADPH
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Phosphate
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Have round shape and grow underground
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bulbs
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Plants and animals as agents of mechanical weathering
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biological weathering
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Different types of cellular respiration
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Glycolysis
Citric acid cycle
Oxidative phosphorylation
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Color of mineral in powder form
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Streak
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naturally occurring inorganic solids
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Minerals
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The minerals that constitutes rocks have different susceptibilities to weathering
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Rock Type
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he wrote the book micrographia and also a artist, 1st
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Robert Hooke
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Basic Structural unit of each living things on earth
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CELL
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The process by which the sperm and egg cells unite, takes place after pollination
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Fertilization
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How cell carry out functions required for life
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Multicellular organisms- specialized cells
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Transfer of pollen from the anther to stigma of the same plant
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Pollination
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Smell of the mineral
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Odor
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Transfer of heat by mass movement or circulation of a substance
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Convections
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found in electrical wires, industrial materials, and other things that are needed in construction.
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Sulfide Class
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Rate of weathering is affected by the presence of joints, folds, faults, bedding planes through which agents of weathering enter a rock mass.
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Rock Structure
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2 types of crust
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Oceanic crust and continental crust
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Union of gametes
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Syngamy / Fertilization
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formed from the deposition of different materials on Earth’s surface.
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Sedimentary Rocks
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are composed of metal cations (+2 charge) combined with sulfur.
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Sulfide class
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Food Producers
Chloroplasts
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Process by which Earth's surface is worn away by wind, water, or ice.
Erosion
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Mineral break along flat surface or into sheets
Cleavage
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Disintegration of rocks, soil and minerals together
Weathering
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Middle layer of earth between the crust and core
Mantle
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Small Rooms
Cellulae
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What are the types of asexual reproduction
Binary fission
Budding
Fragmentation
Regeneration
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Inner most layer of the earth
Core
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What does ignis mean?
Fire
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Organisms that exhibit separate sexes
Dioecious
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rocks break down by chemical reaction
Chemical Weathering
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Chemical weathering is most active in areas with high temperature
Climate
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Granum (Grana) - thylakoids - chlrophyll
Chloroplasts
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Wearing away of rocks by constant collision of loose particles
Abrasion
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It refers to the measure of the mineral’s resistance to scratching.
Hardness
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Proved outer core is liquid and inner core is solid
Innge Lehman
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Contains natural salts
Halide Class
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are crystallized from magma or molten or partially molten volcanic materials that came from within Earth
Igneous Rocks
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What is botany
Study of Plants
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Weathering occurs more quickly on a steep slope than on a gentle one
Topography
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Is a thick and swollen roots
Tubers
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Male reproductive system (Plant)
Stamen
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- chemical breakdwon of substance when combined with water
Hydrolysis
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derived from natural geologic process
Minerals
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Ability of a mineral to attract or repel other minerals
Magnetism
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Grows above the ground
Runner or stolon
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Measure of the density of a mineral.
Specific Gravity
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oxidation products of minerals during the process of weathering
Oxide Class
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A result of the way minerals absorb light.
Color
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All organisms are made up of one or more cell, The cell is the basic unit of life, All cells arise from preexisting cells (Omnis Cellula e cellue)
Cell Theory
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minerals with phosphorus
Phosphate Class
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Layer of weak, ductile rock in the mantle
Asthenosphere
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What can cause erosion
Human activities
Mining
animal stampede
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The reaction between minerals and oxygen dissolved in water
Oxidation
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What is the scale to test hardness called?
Mohs Hardness Scale
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is the ability in some animals to switch their sex based on environmental cues such as changes in temperature
Protandry
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Length of exposure to agents of weather determines the degree of weathering of a rock
Time
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Tells how a mineral’s crystals are arranged
Crystalline structure
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German mineralogists
Frederick Mohs
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Outgrows or bud develops on the parent organism
Budding
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Zoologist, 2nd
Theodor Schwann
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Boundary separating the crust and the mantle
Moho
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When a mineral breaks with lots of Jagged edges
Fracture
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Where in a new plant can grow from a part taken from the parent plant. (Roots, Leaves and stems)
Vegetative Propagation
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Thin, outmost layer of earth
Crust
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slow movement of soil along a curved surface
slump
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What are Eight Basic Classes of Minerals?
1.Silicate class
2.Carbonate class
3.Sulphate class
4.Halide class
5.Oxide class
6.Sulfide class
7.Phosphate class
8.Native element class
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It can be found in:
● shells of dead planktons and other marine organisms
● Areas with high rates of evaporation
● Areas where dissolution of soluble rocks took place
Carbonate Class
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The Reaction of a mineral to light
Luster
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It happens when combined souil and water flow down a slope
Mudflow
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carry histories of changes in Earth's magnetic field
Oxide Class
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elastic shockwave that travel outward in all directions from an earthquake
Seismic Wave
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Only required DNA from one parent. It creates offspring that are genetically identical to the parent
Asexual reproduction
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The level of resistance or reaction of minerals to stress such as crushing, bending, breaking , or tearing.
Tenacity
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When pollen from the anther of one plane is transferred to stigma of another plant
Cross Pollination
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What are Physical Properties of Minerals
1. Color
2. Streak
3. Hardness
4. Breaking Properties??
5. Crystalline structure
6. Transparency or diaphaneity
7. Magnetism
8. Tenacity
9. Luster
10. Odor
11. Specific Gravity
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Largest and most important class of minerals
Silicate Class
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Process by which chemical energy of food molecules is released and partially captured for the production of ATP
Cell Resipration
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Where in the body of an organism divides into two bodies
Binary Fission
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Croatian seismologist
Andrija Mohorovicic
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Wearing away rocks by constant collision of lose particles
Abrasion
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are rocks that derive from igneous or sedimentary rocks that were exposed to high pressure, high temperature, or a combination of both, deep below the surface of Earth
Metamorphic Rocks
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Change in the composition of mineral when they react with water
Hydrolysis
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no light passes through even the thinnest slice
opaque
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an organism's body is divided into two or more parts, wherein each fragment develops into an organism like its parent.
Fragmentation
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Carbon dioxide combines with water
Carbonation
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water freezes then expanding and fractures the rock .
Cryofracturing
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Force exerted by salt crystals that formed as water evaporates from pore spaces or cracks in rocks can cause the rock to fall apart
Salt crystal growth
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What does Morph Mean?
Form
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I happens when a large amount of sediments, usually rocks of various sizes, falls down the slope
Debris fall
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important biological mineral found-in the teeth and bones of many animals
Phosphate Class
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What are the factors that affect the type, extent, and rate at which weathering takes place
Climate
Rock type
Rock Structure
Topography
Time
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The ability of a thin slice of material to transmit light
Transparency or diaphaneity
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German - american Seismologist
Beno GutenBerg
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preserve or "record" the kind of environment that existed when they were being formed
Sedimentary Rocks
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Is a stem that grows horizontally under the ground
Rhizomes
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level of resistance or reaction of mineral to stress
tenacity
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The process by which the sperm and egg cells unite, takes place after pollination
Fertilization
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What are the Agents of weathering
- water, acids, salts, plants, animals, and changes of temperatures
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Found in Marine environments
Carbonate Class
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What does Meta Mean?
Change
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A Theory which proposes that the earth's crust and upper mantle to be composed of several large, thin and relatively rigid plates that move relative to one another
Plate tectonics Theory
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When water gets inside the joints
Frost wedging
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Found in Dead sea, Great Salt Lake
Halide Class
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father of modern patology, 3rd
Rudolf Virchow
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It occurs where the sun's light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll
Light-dependent reactions
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What are Classification of Rocks
1. Igneous rocks
2.Sedimentary rocks
3.Metamorphic rocks
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- reaction of substance with oxygen
Oxidation
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Branch of biochemistry that focuses on how cells transform energy
BioEnergetics
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Breakdown of rocks by mechanical forces
Physical weathering
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Dissociation of molecules into ions
Dissolution
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in plants takes place when the gametes, or the male and female sex cells of a plant, unite to form a single cell called zigote
Sexual reproduction
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disk like structure
Granum
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ATP
Adenosine trihosphate
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All processes produced in the surface
Exogenous Processes
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What is ATP
Adenosine Triphosphate
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Organisms that have both male and female systems
Monoecious or Hermaphrodites
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Happens in stroma
Light independent reaction, calvin cycle
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Minerals don't contain _________
Carbon
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What are the functions required for life
Respiration
regulation
Reproduction
Excretion
Growth
Nutrition
Transport
Synthesis
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whats ADP
Adenosine Diphosphate
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Refers to the movement of large masses of materials
Mass wasting
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It involves new plants growing from small parts of the parent plant that fall to the ground
Fragmentation
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German botanis and botany professor, Plant structure
Matthias Schleiden
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female reproductive system(plant)
Pistil
