lesson 3: rocks and minerals

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This lesson covers: describing the rock cycle. You will explain that there are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks, each with distinct properties, and that rocks are made of one or more minerals. You will also identify minerals by their properties.

Lesson 3: Rocks and Minerals





Characteristic Properties of

Minerals

• A mineral is the same all the way through.– Color– Shiny-ness– Fracture pattern– Harness– Transparency– Many others

Rocks are combinations of minerals




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Lesson 3 Sources

• http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html• http://regentsprep.org/Regents/earthsci/rockcycle.htm• http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html• http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/M

erocks/Metindex.html• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/meta_foli

ated.html&edu=elem• http://www.ltcconline.net/julian/history/rocks.html• http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/

investigations/es0602/es0602page03.cfm

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/earthsci/rockcycle.htm

http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Merocks/Metindex.html

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Merocks/Metindex.html

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/meta_foliated.html&edu=elem

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/geology/meta_foliated.html&edu=elem

http://www.ltcconline.net/julian/history/rocks.html

Lessons 6-7: Plate Tectonics and Landforms

These lessons cover: understanding the interior structure of the Earth and plate tectonics, and explaining geological events and cycles that occur due to plate motion. Describing how landforms and rock layers are created, and understanding how the three types of plate boundaries cause different landforms.

Interior Structure of the EarthCRUST

MANTLE

OUTER CORE

INNER CORE







Tectonic Plates

Plate Movement

Plate Boundaries3 kinds of movement

Transform DivergentConvergent

What is geological event is experienced with each type?

What landforms are created by each kind?

Creating Landforms

• Sedimentation

• Erosion

• Volcanoes

• Trenches

• Mountains

• Folding



San Andreas Fault



Sedimentation



Folding



Erosion



Volcano

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Mountains

Lessons 6-7 Sources

• http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/geo_history_wa/The%20Restless%20Earth%20v.2.0.htm

• http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~braile/edumod/earthint/earthint.htm

• http://www.eoearth.org/article/Plate_tectonics• http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/

understanding.html#anchor15039288• http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/

textbook/tectonics_landforms/outline.html