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Pangea initially separated into two parts, the southern part is called ____. 

A pulverized mineral (usually on a piece of white unglazed porcelain) gives a color called its ____, that is usually more reliable than the color of the specimen itself. 

Plate tectonics is a unifying idea that helps explain where and why there are ___ on Earth. 

Earth can be visualized as a giant machine driven by which of the following engines?  

The product of the breakdown of surface rocks by weathering and erosion is __. 

Plate tectonics regards the lithosphere as divided into segments (plates) that are in horizontal motion

The mineral ___ is an example of a native element. 

If you have a furnace in your house that burns natural gas to produce heat why is it important for the safety of your family to make sure the furnace is getting an adequate supply of oxygen?  (2 marks)

The softest mineral on Mohs’ hardness scale is ____. 

Geologists believe that 200 to 225 million years ago all the continents were combined into one gigantic supercontinent called: