Virtual Rock Kit
Follow-up questions
Which of these rocks would be good for:
- Making a statue?
- Building a
dam?
- Making a fireplace?
- Solid foundations?
Which of the rocks would
be best for:
- Storing water within it?
- Storing oil or gas within it?
- Showing
that sedimentary rocks are made of lots of fragments?
- Showing that igneous
rocks have interlocking crystals?
- Showing that metamorphic rocks often
have aligned minerals?
- Showing that some rocks contain traces of past
life?
Which rocks (2 or more) would best show:
- Sedimentary rocks ranging
from coarse to fine?
- The difference between igneous rocks that formed
by slow cooling and fast-cooled igneous rocks?
- Metamorphic rocks that
don’t have aligned minerals?
- The metamorphic rocks that show a
sequence of increasing metamorphism from an initial mudstone sedimentary
rock?
Why?
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