What is an important fact about the sun that impacts our weather? Name
another factor other than the sun that helps to create weather. Does water vapor
absorb the sun's energy faster than the land? What determines if rain, sleet, hail
or snow fall from a cloud? *

Pegmatites are igneous rocks in which the individual minerals are very large. typically, the minerals are all light-colored quartz, feldspar and muscovite. if you were given a black and white photograph of a pegmatite in a quarry (where the rock has been blasted and broken), what physical properties could you use to identify those three minerals in this hypothetical photo? describe each mineral and the specific diagnostic properties. be specific.