Mei wants to study whether heart rate increases more during certain exercises than during others. she designs an experiment to test the heart rates of classmates in the morning and in the evening for three days, immediately after doing jumping jacks, doing push-ups, or running in place. what is the dependent variable in this experiment?

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.