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Chapter 1: Introduction to Physical Geology
Chapter 2: Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
Chapter 3: Igneous Rocks, Intrusive Activity, and the Origin of Igneous Rocks
Chapter 4: Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks
Chapter 5: Weathering and Soil
Chapter 6: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 7: Metamorphism, Metamorphic Rocks, and Hydrothermal Rocks
Chapter 8: Time and Geology
Chapter 9: Mass Wasting
Chapter 10: Streams and Floods
Chapter 11: Ground Water
Chapter 12: Glaciers and Glaciation
Chapter 13: Deserts and Wind Action
Chapter 14: Waves, Beaches, and Coasts
Chapter 15: Geologic Structures
Chapter 16: Earthquakes
Chapter 17: The Earth's Interior
Chapter 18: The Sea Floor
Chapter 19: Plate Tectonics
Chapter 20: Mountain Belts and the Continental Crust
Chapter 21: Geologic Resources
Chapter 2: Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
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Expanding Your Knowledge
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Learning Objectives
Chapter 2: Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
The distinctions between rocks, minerals, and chemical elements
What crystallinity is and its relationship to minerals
How atoms of various elements differ
How the subatomic particles comprising atoms of a particular element account for its mass and also control bonding and chemical reactions
The chemical composition of the earth's crust; how the crust's most abundant elements control the composition of common minerals
What a silica tetrahedron represents; characteristics of common silicate structures
The
geologic
definition of a mineral
Physical properties that you can use to identify minerals without special laboratory equipment
What the rock cycle is and how it relates to the earth's internal and external processes
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