CK12 Earth Science
Review Questions Which type of satellite can be used to pinpoint your location on Earth?(Beginning) weather satellite communica ...
Vocabulary Geographic Information System (GIS) An information system that links data to a particular location. geostationary orb ...
(9) http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040129.html. GNU Free Documentation. (10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Topographic_map_exa ...
(25) NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images. php3?img_id=17283San Francisco Mountain and surrounding a ...
(39) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/ WorldMapLongLat-eq-circles-tropics-non.png. GNU-FDL. (40) http://en.wik ...
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Chapter 3 Earth’s Minerals 3.1 What are Minerals?. Lesson Objectives Describe the characteristics that all minerals share. Summ ...
Figure 3.1: Silver is used to make sterling silver jewelry. Table salt is the mineral halite. Glass is produced from the mineral ...
arranged in a regular, repeating pattern. Figure3.2shows how the atoms are arranged in table salt (halite). Table salt contains ...
compoundis a substance in which the atoms of two or more elements bond together. The elements in a chemical compound are in a ce ...
Crystals in Minerals The shape of the crystals of a mineral is determined by the way the atoms are arranged. When crystals grow ...
jewelry. They are also very hard. Graphite is used as pencil lead and has a slippery feel. Compare the diamond with the pencil l ...
Figure 3.6: One silicon atom bonds to four oxygen atoms to form the building block of silicate minerals. ( 15 ) Notice that the ...
Native Elements Native elements are minerals that contain only atoms of one type of element. The elements are not combined with ...
that contains fluorine and calcium. Fluorite can be found in many colors. If you shine an ultraviolet light on some samples of f ...
Figure 3.10: Turquoise ( 5 ) Sulfates Sulfate minerals contain sulfur atoms bonded to oxygen atoms. Like halides, they can form ...
Figure 3.11: The white gypsum sands at White Sands National Monument look like snow. ( 24 ) ...
Lesson Summary For a substance to be a mineral, it must be a naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid that has a chara ...
http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/class.htm http://library.eb.com/eb/article-9067760 http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K ...
physical properties of your shirt. If you did a good job describing your shirt, your friend would recognize the shirt when you w ...
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