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?

Properties of rock types• 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

How to tell rock type

Try it