Transcript ROCK CYCLE

Quiz
• Get out you ESRT and a piece of paper
• The following questions are from your
ESRT.
• You’ll have a minute per question…
Question 1
• What controls a minerals properties?
Question 2
• A rock is extrusive, and dark in color and
has no holes in it. What is its name?
Question 3
• How does Limestone form? USE ESRT
Question 4
• Name me if I am foliated with alternating
colors and my parent rock is granite?
Answers
• What controls a minerals properties?
– IAOA
• A rock is extrusive, and dark in color and
has no holes in it
– Basalt
• How does Limestone form?
– Precipitation from water
• I am foliated with alternating colors
– Gneiss
ROCK CYCLE
The Rock cycle
• What is the rock cycle?
– A diagram that shows how rocks can change
from one type to another.
• Can a rock go from Sedimentary to
Igneous?
• How does a metamorphic rock become
sedimentary?
• What about igneous becoming
metamorphic?
What is the Rock cycle?
rock types
HowProperties
to tell rock of
type
• Igneous
– Crystals
– Maybe some holes in it
– NO fossils
• Metamorphic
– Banding of minerals
– No fossils
– Random other mineral crystals
• Sedimentary
– Fossils
– Layers of sediment
– Sediment
Try it