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? _________________________
________________________ _________________________.
ii. What are the 2 stages of the rock cycle between the major rock types?
________________ and _________________
iii. What is the difference between magma and lava?
iv. Click here to see what must happen to existing rock before it can be
compacted and cemented to form sedimentary rock?
_________________________ .
v. Click here to draw your own version of the rock cycle below. You
can use abbreviations.
vi. 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) 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?
4) Go to this page here…
a. What types of materials can become sedimentary?
b. What are the different types of weathering (click on weathering)?
c. What is a clastic sedimentary rock in your own words?
d. What is a nonclastic sedimentary rock in your own words?
5) 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?
6) 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?