ELS (2nd Grading) Flashcards

1
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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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2
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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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3
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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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4
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Female and male sex cell

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Gametes

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5
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NADPH

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Phosphate

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6
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Have round shape and grow underground

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bulbs

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7
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Plants and animals as agents of mechanical weathering

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biological weathering

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8
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Different types of cellular respiration

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Glycolysis
Citric acid cycle
Oxidative phosphorylation

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9
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Color of mineral in powder form

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Streak

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10
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naturally occurring inorganic solids

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Minerals

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11
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The minerals that constitutes rocks have different susceptibilities to weathering

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Rock Type

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12
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he wrote the book micrographia and also a artist, 1st

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Robert Hooke

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13
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Basic Structural unit of each living things on earth

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CELL

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14
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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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15
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How cell carry out functions required for life

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Multicellular organisms- specialized cells

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16
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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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17
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Smell of the mineral

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Odor

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18
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Transfer of heat by mass movement or circulation of a substance

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Convections

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19
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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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20
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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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21
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2 types of crust

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Oceanic crust and continental crust

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22
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Union of gametes

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Syngamy / Fertilization

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23
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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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24
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are composed of metal cations (+2 charge) combined with sulfur.

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Sulfide class

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25
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Food Producers

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Chloroplasts

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26
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Process by which Earth’s surface is worn away by wind, water, or ice.

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Erosion

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27
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Mineral break along flat surface or into sheets

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Cleavage

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28
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Disintegration of rocks, soil and minerals together

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Weathering

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29
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Middle layer of earth between the crust and core

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Mantle

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30
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Small Rooms

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Cellulae

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31
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What are the types of asexual reproduction

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Binary fission
Budding
Fragmentation
Regeneration

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32
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Inner most layer of the earth

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Core

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33
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What does ignis mean?

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Fire

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34
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Organisms that exhibit separate sexes

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Dioecious

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35
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rocks break down by chemical reaction

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Chemical Weathering

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36
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Chemical weathering is most active in areas with high temperature

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Climate

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37
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Granum (Grana) - thylakoids - chlrophyll

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Chloroplasts

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38
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Wearing away of rocks by constant collision of loose particles

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Abrasion

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39
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It refers to the measure of the mineral’s resistance to scratching.

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Hardness

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40
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Proved outer core is liquid and inner core is solid

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Innge Lehman

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41
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Contains natural salts

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Halide Class

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42
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are crystallized from magma or molten or partially molten volcanic materials that came from within Earth

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Igneous Rocks

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43
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What is botany

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Study of Plants

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44
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Weathering occurs more quickly on a steep slope than on a gentle one

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Topography

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45
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Is a thick and swollen roots

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Tubers

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46
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Male reproductive system (Plant)

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Stamen

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47
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  • chemical breakdwon of substance when combined with water
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Hydrolysis

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48
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derived from natural geologic process

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Minerals

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49
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Ability of a mineral to attract or repel other minerals

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Magnetism

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50
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Grows above the ground

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Runner or stolon

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51
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Measure of the density of a mineral.

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Specific Gravity

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52
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oxidation products of minerals during the process of weathering

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Oxide Class

53
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A result of the way minerals absorb light.

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Color

54
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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)

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Cell Theory

55
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minerals with phosphorus

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Phosphate Class

56
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Layer of weak, ductile rock in the mantle

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Asthenosphere

57
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What can cause erosion

A

Human activities
Mining
animal stampede

58
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The reaction between minerals and oxygen dissolved in water

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Oxidation

59
Q

What is the scale to test hardness called?

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Mohs Hardness Scale

60
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is the ability in some animals to switch their sex based on environmental cues such as changes in temperature

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Protandry

61
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Length of exposure to agents of weather determines the degree of weathering of a rock

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Time

62
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Tells how a mineral’s crystals are arranged

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Crystalline structure

63
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German mineralogists

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Frederick Mohs

64
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Outgrows or bud develops on the parent organism

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Budding

65
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Zoologist, 2nd

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Theodor Schwann

66
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Boundary separating the crust and the mantle

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Moho

67
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When a mineral breaks with lots of Jagged edges

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Fracture

68
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Where in a new plant can grow from a part taken from the parent plant. (Roots, Leaves and stems)

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Vegetative Propagation

69
Q

Thin, outmost layer of earth

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Crust

70
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slow movement of soil along a curved surface

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slump

71
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What are Eight Basic Classes of Minerals?

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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

72
Q

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

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Carbonate Class

73
Q

The Reaction of a mineral to light

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Luster

74
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It happens when combined souil and water flow down a slope

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Mudflow

75
Q

carry histories of changes in Earth’s magnetic field

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Oxide Class

76
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elastic shockwave that travel outward in all directions from an earthquake

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Seismic Wave

77
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Only required DNA from one parent. It creates offspring that are genetically identical to the parent

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Asexual reproduction

78
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The level of resistance or reaction of minerals to stress such as crushing, bending, breaking , or tearing.

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Tenacity

79
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When pollen from the anther of one plane is transferred to stigma of another plant

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Cross Pollination

80
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What are Physical Properties of Minerals

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  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
81
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Largest and most important class of minerals

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Silicate Class

82
Q

Process by which chemical energy of food molecules is released and partially captured for the production of ATP

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Cell Resipration

83
Q

Where in the body of an organism divides into two bodies

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Binary Fission

84
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Croatian seismologist

A

Andrija Mohorovicic

85
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Wearing away rocks by constant collision of lose particles

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Abrasion

86
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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

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Metamorphic Rocks

87
Q

Change in the composition of mineral when they react with water

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Hydrolysis

88
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no light passes through even the thinnest slice

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opaque

89
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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.

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Fragmentation

90
Q

Carbon dioxide combines with water

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Carbonation

91
Q

water freezes then expanding and fractures the rock .

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Cryofracturing

92
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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

A

Salt crystal growth

93
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What does Morph Mean?

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Form

94
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I happens when a large amount of sediments, usually rocks of various sizes, falls down the slope

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Debris fall

95
Q

important biological mineral found-in the teeth and bones of many animals

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Phosphate Class

96
Q

What are the factors that affect the type, extent, and rate at which weathering takes place

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Climate
Rock type
Rock Structure
Topography
Time

97
Q

The ability of a thin slice of material to transmit light

A

Transparency or diaphaneity

98
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German - american Seismologist

A

Beno GutenBerg

99
Q

preserve or “record” the kind of environment that existed when they were being formed

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Sedimentary Rocks

100
Q

Is a stem that grows horizontally under the ground

A

Rhizomes

101
Q

level of resistance or reaction of mineral to stress

A

tenacity

102
Q

The process by which the sperm and egg cells unite, takes place after pollination

A

Fertilization

103
Q

What are the Agents of weathering

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  • water, acids, salts, plants, animals, and changes of temperatures
104
Q

Found in Marine environments

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Carbonate Class

105
Q

What does Meta Mean?

A

Change

106
Q

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

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Plate tectonics Theory

107
Q

When water gets inside the joints

A

Frost wedging

108
Q

Found in Dead sea, Great Salt Lake

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Halide Class

109
Q

father of modern patology, 3rd

A

Rudolf Virchow

110
Q

It occurs where the sun’s light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll

A

Light-dependent reactions

111
Q

What are Classification of Rocks

A
  1. Igneous rocks
    2.Sedimentary rocks
    3.Metamorphic rocks
112
Q
  • reaction of substance with oxygen
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Oxidation

113
Q

Branch of biochemistry that focuses on how cells transform energy

A

BioEnergetics

114
Q

Breakdown of rocks by mechanical forces

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Physical weathering

115
Q

Dissociation of molecules into ions

A

Dissolution

116
Q

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

A

Sexual reproduction

117
Q

disk like structure

A

Granum

118
Q

ATP

A

Adenosine trihosphate

119
Q

All processes produced in the surface

A

Exogenous Processes

120
Q

What is ATP

A

Adenosine Triphosphate

121
Q

Organisms that have both male and female systems

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Monoecious or Hermaphrodites

122
Q

Happens in stroma

A

Light independent reaction, calvin cycle

123
Q

Minerals don’t contain _________

A

Carbon

124
Q

What are the functions required for life

A

Respiration
regulation
Reproduction
Excretion
Growth
Nutrition
Transport
Synthesis

125
Q

whats ADP

A

Adenosine Diphosphate

126
Q

Refers to the movement of large masses of materials

A

Mass wasting

127
Q

It involves new plants growing from small parts of the parent plant that fall to the ground

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Fragmentation

128
Q

German botanis and botany professor, Plant structure

A

Matthias Schleiden

129
Q

female reproductive system(plant)

A

Pistil