Name: _______________________________
Rocks Webquest of Champions
Directions: Use the links to answer the questions. Don’t just go through the links quickly to finish quicker!
Make sure to answer each question thoroughly because this should serve as a study tool for your test!
1) Go to this link http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html
a. Using the diagram of the rock cycle answer the following questions:
i. What are the 3 types of rocks? _________________________ ________________________
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ii. What are the 2 stages of the rock cycle between the major rock types? ______________ and
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What is the difference between magma and lava?
iii. What must happen to existing rock before it can be compacted and cemented to form
sedimentary rock? _________________________ .
iv. Draw your own version of the rock cycle below. You can use abbreviations!!!!
v. Create a sentence that sums up the rock cycle:
2) Igneous Rocks http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/create/igneous.htm
a. Explain the 2 conditions in which igneous rocks form.
b. Click Here Where are intrusive rocks formed?
c. What does it say about the crystal size of Intrusive rocks and why?
d. Where are extrusive rocks formed?
e. What does it say about the crystal size of Extrusive rocks and why?
3) In your text book… page 180-181 in Earth Science
i. What 5 intrusive formations are mentioned in the diagram?
ii. Which formation bends the layers of rock above it? __________________________
iii. Which formation cuts through the layers of rock? __________________________
iv. Which formation runs parallel to the layers of rock? __________________________
v. What is the difference between a stock and a batholith?
4) Click Here. Look at the samples.
a. What is sample 1? ____________________________
b. Is it intrusive or extrusive (circle one)?
c. Fine-grained or coarse-grained (circle one)?
d. What is sample 2? ____________________________What conditions does it form in?
e. What is sample 4? ____________________________ What is unique about this rock?
5) Click Here. Click on “Cooling and Crystallization”. By watching the animation, which rock cooled slower?
6) Go back to the main page http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/sed.html
a. Click on “Sedimentary”.
i. What types of rocks can become sedimentary?
ii. What are the different types of weathering?
iii. Give 2 reasons why sedimentary rocks are important.
b. Click on “Clastic Sedimentary Rocks”. What is a clastic rock in your own words?
c. Go back. Click on “Non Clastic Sedimentary Rocks”. What is a Nonclastic rock in your own words?
7) Go to this link Here Look at the diagram of the rock cycle to the right of the page. What is wrong with this
depiction of the rock cycle? What does it not show?
8) Click Here. Watch the entire animation. Make sure to read each caption and click on each animation
available. There are mini animations available at each step so make sure to watch them!!!
a. What rock is shown at the end of the lava flow animation? How do you know?
b. Look at the 7 locations of erosion examples. Make sure to click on each to see the pictures.
c. During the river animation, what happens to the larger rocks compared to the smaller sediments
when they are carried in the river?
d. Watch the deposition animation.
i. Where do the gravel size particles deposit? Why?
ii. Where do sand size particles deposit? Why?
iii. Where do clay/silt deposit? Why?
e. Watch the sediment animation.
i. What type of rock is being formed?
ii. What process is being illustrated?
f. Watch the metamorphism animation.
i. What process is being illustrated in the metamorphic rock?