Thursday, November 18, 2010

Material for upcoming tests, quizzes, and possibly enriching your life experiences:

NEED TO KNOW:

Chemistry:
Atoms are made of protons, electrons, and neutrons

The atomic number is the number of protons and electrons. The atomic mass minus the atomic number is the number of neutrons. See previous posts for information about Bohr's models.


Minerals:

Minerals are: Sold, Inorganic, Naturally Occurring, Definite Chemical Structure
Minerals are differentiated by: color, luster, streak, hardness, specific gravity, texture, taste

Be able to identify galena, potassium feldspar, talc, halite, calcite, hornblende, and quartz

Rocks are made of minerals:


Here is http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html

Meanwhile: The three rock types are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igenous

Be able to identify and sort the following rocks into their respective place on said cycle (i.e. are they metamorphic, sedimentary, igneous, sediment, or a gnome.


Granite, Basalt, marble, gneiss, schist, basalt, obsidian, diamond, gold, limestone, conglomerate, coquina, sand, silt, clay, sand

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