Vocabulary
What do you call the the material that swirls inside of a volcano (still inside)?
Magma
Where is sedimentary rocks formed? (what was the land like in the past?)
Below sea level or at the bottom of the sea.
What can I see in a channel of rocks? (what can I count?)
Layers, counting how many times lava had flowed from a volcano
What did Native Americans try to escape from on Devil's Tower?
A bear
What do you call the material that flows out from volcanoes?
Lava
Name 3 things that I'm looking at to determine what type a rock it is.
Color, textures, shapes, etc.
Where can basalt be found?
In laval rock from the riverbed
What did astronauts collect on the moon?
800 pounds of rock
What is a channel?
It's a path made my water repeatedly running down rock.
What are sedimentary rocks made of?
Shells and calcite
If I were to look basalt under the microscope, what would I find?
Really colorful shapes
What kind of rock does the Sugar Loaf in Brazil have?
Granite
What do you call the giant formation of ice that floats along in the ocean?
Glaciar
Explain the process of how sedimentary rocks are made.
They are made from the calcite and shells pressed together and turned into rock.
What kind of environment is basalt found in?
Areas that have or had volcanoes
Explain how Half Dome was formed
Half Dome is magma that cooled beneath's surface. It was later uncovered by erosion.
Who publishes information and maps that tell people where rocks, minerals, and resources are found?
US Geological Survey
If I'm looking at a channel that in a rock, what can you count (layers)?
How many times lava had flowed from a volcano
Based on the reading, where would I find brightly colored shapes?
When you look at basalt under the microscope
Explain what a monolith is and where it can be found.
A monolith is a single large piece of rock. The largest is Ayers Rock in Australia.
Explain how 2 rocks are formed (how they become certain rocks). Why do we care what rocks are made of? How does it affect our lives
Sedimentary- made of tiny bits of shells and calcite from the bottom of the sea. They press together and turn into a rock.
Basalt- particles from a volcano exploded and they were so hot that when they settled to the ground, the stuck together.