[GEO 100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)
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Environment- the sum of all features and conditions surrounding and organism that. Other important concepts in environmental geology: finite resources, obligation to future. Atoms - bonding - minerals - p,t,c (pressure, temp. , composition) rocks exploration information. Atom: the smallest particle that retains the properties of a chemical element. Element: matter composed of one kind of atom. Measured by geochemists fundamental units of matter. Mineral (a single element or compound: naturally formed. Rock: naturally formed, coherent mass of minerals, may include organic debris. Atoms are the basic unit of matter: made of three particles. Elements are made of one type atom. Number of protons determine characteristics and name. 92 naturally occurring elements represented by a symbol: h, hydrogen, c, carbon, o, oxygen, n, nitrogen. Isotopes: same number of protons, different number of neutrons. Carbon has 6 isotopes, may have 6,7 or 8 neutrons.
