Science - Rocks and Minerals

Rocks & Minerals Webquest

Directions:
Answer the following questions in your Science Notebook. Be sure to title, number, and organize your questions and answers neatly. You should use the websites provided for each question. Use your own words. (You must not copy the information.)

Types of Rocks and how they form 

link http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/types.html

1. What are the three main types of rocks?

2. How are sedimentary rocks formed?

3. What 2 "key" words describe how metamorphic rocks are formed?     

 4. How are igneous rocks formed?

 How rocks change

link http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/change.html

5.  What does Igneous rock turn into under heat and pressure?

Complete the Rock Cycle

link http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram2.html

6.   Rock Cycle - Ask Ms. Fodness for the Rock Cycle answer sheet after you have answered the questions.  Use a blue crayon and check your answers in your Science Notebook.

 Mohs Scale

 link http://www.kidsloverocks.com/html/friedrich_mohs.html

7. What is Mohs Scale used for?

8. What mineral is a 10 on Mohs Scale?

9. Give an example of a mineral with a hardness of 7 (according to Mohs Scale).  Tell me about that mineral.

10. If a mineral can scratch a penny, what number is it on Mohs Scale?

    Streak 

link http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/grocha/mineral/streak.html

11. Sometimes the color and the streak of a mineral are very different.  Which one of the examples shows the greatest difference?

Test your skills

link http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/testskills.html

Answer questions about rocks and the rock cycle.  This is an assessment to see how much you've learned.  Enter only your first name, then answer the questions that follow.  Print your test when you are done.