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Rocks and Minerals Webquest
Directions: Answer the following questions in the Word document using the websites provided for each question.
Rock Cycle: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html
1.What are the three main types of rocks?
2.How does a sedimentary rock turn into a metamorphic rock?
3.How does an igneous rock turn into metamorphic rock?
4.How do metamorphic rocks change into sedimentary rocks?
5.How do igneous rocks change into sedimentary rocks?
6.What is the beginning of the rock cycle? The end?
View this Rock Cycle animation: http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/...
7.Quick cooling forms many small what?
8.When you look at the desert monuments, what eroded away?
9.The microscopic view of sandstone contains what two components?
10.What two things are needed to run igneous rock into metamorphic rock?
Rocks: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/
11.List and define the 6 key characteristics that can help you identify rocks within three main classes.
Rock Identification Key: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/id/r...
12.For igneous rock, when magma cools slowly the crystals…
13.For igneous rock, when magma cools quickly, the crystals…
14.Of the types of igneous rock formed underground, which one is most familiar?
15.When looking at sedimentary particle size, which material type has the largest particles and which has the smallest particles?