Why does increasing the temperature of a reaction cause the reaction rate to increase?

There is an area in idaho named craters of the moon where most of the ground is covered with basalt, adark gray, igneous rock with no visibl crystals. what can you infer about the geographical history of the area?

There are main groups in the modern periodic table of elements

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.