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What is a tourmaline pod?
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A brittle, gray, black mineral that appears in igneous rock when it crystallizes.
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Cats paw, mineral
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what is a xenolith?
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A piece of rock within an igneous rock that does
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rock within a rock
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What is raising a ledge?
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Raising a ledge is when you drill holes into a rock, stick dynamite into it, and bow the top layer of rock off the surface.
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explode
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what is succession?
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Changes from early growth to a mature plant community.
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Growth, plants
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What is a mesic forest?
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A forest that needs lots of water.
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Water, rain
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what is the Marginal Ecotone?
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A place the sperates one ecosystem from another.
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line, divide.
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What is pegmatite?
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Coarse, crystallized granite.
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Rock, crystal
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What is the Core?
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The core is the center of the earth.
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center
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What is the mantle...
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The thickest layer in earth.
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thick
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What is the crust?
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The outer most layer of earths surface
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outer.
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