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51 Cards in this Set
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What are the three different types of rocks?
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Igenous
Metamorphic Sedimentary |
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How does Igneous rock form?
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Interation with lava or hydrothermal deposits.
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How does Metamorphic rock form?
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Intense pressure/heat
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How does Sedimentary rock form?
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Weathering/erosion of different sized particles
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What are minerals?
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naturally-occuring crystalline solid
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What are rocks?
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aggregate of one or more aggregate minerals
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How are rocks/minerals used today?
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Tool,s Building, Artifaxcts, Consumables, Deocration, Jewlery
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What types of rock are the continental crust and oceanic crust made of?
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Continental: basalt
Oceanic: granite |
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What minerals make up granite? Basalt?
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Granite: quarts, mica
Basalt:feldspar, magnetite |
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What is stone mountain made of?
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granite
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How does granite respond to weathering?
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quartz is resistant
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Extracting AL?
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boxite?
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What's in granite?
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Silicon and Oxygen
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What are the two most prevalent things in rocks?
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Oxygen and Silicon
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What kind of rock is granite?
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Felsic
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What kind of rock is Basalt?
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mafic
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Oceanic/Continental?
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Oceanic: Basalt
Continental: felsic |
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What is table salt's mineral?
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sodium
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How does sodium form?
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evaporation
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Difference between mineral reserve and mineral resources?
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Mineral Reserves- currently feasible
Mineral Resource: Potentially feasible |
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What type of minerals do we use most of?
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non-metals
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What are the most used minerals?
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stone and sand
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How do soils form?
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weathering
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Soil layers?
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Oscar Asked Eva to Be Careful Rafting
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What factors influence soil formation?
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Parent Material, Soil Aeration, Climate, Topography, and Time
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Sequence soil forms?
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RCABEO
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Moderate Temp, Lots of Rain: Soil?
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organic-rich topsoil
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Extreme cold/hot, minor rain: Soil?
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Soil less common
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Very warm/humid?
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Lots of weathering and leaching.
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Georgia State soil?
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Tifton
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O- Over long time
A- above weathered parent E- Extensive leaching B- By leaching C- Consquently, weathered R- Rock |
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How much of Earth is freshwater?
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3.5%
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What's the water cycle?
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1. Water evaporates
2. Water forms clouds 3. Water gets cold, becomes liquid 4. Water falls |
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What ares of the US use the most water?
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Irrigation and thermoelectric power.
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Where do humans get drinking water from?
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underground
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Where does Statesboro get water from?
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Florida Aquifer
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What is porosity?
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ratio of open spaces to total volume of subsurface material
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What is permability?
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How much water can "flow" through material
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What's an aquifer?
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Body of rock or sediment that is porous, permeable, and saturated.
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Kinds of aquifers?
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confined, perched, unconfined
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What is characterized with different types of aquifers?
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depth to water, flow, water chemistry, hydraulic head.
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What is hydraulic head?
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elevation of water above datum,.
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What's a fossil fuel?
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natural substance formed long ago from: burial, compaction, and heating.
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What's the mass balance equation?
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IN water- OUT water = STORED water
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What are fossil fuels used for?
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Industry and Transportation
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How old are fossil fuels?
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300 million years old
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Kinds of coal?
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Peat, Lignite, Bitaminous, Athracite
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Coal is mostly made of ____
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swamp plants
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Bigger molecular weight = ____
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longer chain
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Longer molecular chain = ___
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bigger molecular weight
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What's a petroleum trap?
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place where petroleum is trapped
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