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On
the fifth floor is Permanent Exhibition Hall. Don’t miss out
any of the six exciting sections: plants, insects,
invertebrates, vertebrates I & II, and earth science section.
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Earth
Science
About 230 items of minerals, rocks,
and fossils are on display. Don’t miss out the separate
exhibitions on meteoric stones, jewelry stones, continental drift theory, and the history of dinosaur. Moreover, video theater provides interesting insight into the heavenly bodies. Vivid pictures, detailed descriptions, life-size models, microscopes, CCTV, and actual specimens attract the visitors.
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 Minerals
Minerals are solid matters naturally
made up of chemical components and crystal structures.
According to the structural elements, minerals are
divided into element mineral, sulfurized mineral, sodium carbonate mineral, sulfate mineral, and silicate mineral.
Rocks
According to the formation process,
rocks are divided into igneous rock, senimentary rock,
and metamorphic rock.
- Igneous Rock : Igneous rocks refer
to the hot magma that had
once been melt underground but later cooled and
became solid.
- Senimentary
Rock : Senimentary rocks refer to
either the hardened sediments of rivers and
oceans or the precipitates of seawater due to chemical reaction.
- Metamorphic
Rock : Metamorphic
rocks refer to the transformed rocks due to high pressure and high temperature.
Fissils
In geologic time, shells and bones
embedded in sediment, under conditions suitable for
preservation, left exact reproductions of both external
and internal structures. The representative fossils of
geologic time are as follows: stromatolite, the
Precambrian period’s procaryote fossil; the Paleozoic era’s tribobites and fernery fossils; the Mesozoic era’s ammonite and archaeopteryx fossils; and the Cenozoic era’s foraminifer and nummulite fossils.
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