major chemical groups that comprise minerals

PROJECT 3

From Chapter 5

  • What are the major chemical groups that comprise minerals (silicates, phosphorites, carbonates, salts. . . )? Give an example of a mineral in each group. Be substantive, complete, and original in your response—do not provide cut-and-paste text. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 5

  • Define batholithdikelaccolithplutonsillintrusive, and extrusive. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 7

  • Define calderaflood basaltpyroclastic rockshield volcano, and phreatic eruption. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 7

  • Define beddingevaporitefossilstrata, and detrital sediment. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 8

  • Define regional metamorphismshock metamorphismcontact metamorphism, and burial metamorphism. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

 

PROJECT 4

From Chapter 15

  • Sketch/diagram and label the carbon cycle.
  • Define soil horizonmechanical weatheringchemical weatheringspheroidal weathering, and leaching. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 15

  • Define creeplandslidepermafrostsolifluction, and talus. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 16

  • Sketch/diagram and label the hydrologic cycle.
  • Define stream dividestream piracydendritic drainagedissolved loadnatural leveesuspended loadmeander cutoffultimate base level, and two other terms. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

 

PROJECT 5