The Rock Cycle

Ms. Curtin found a rock that has large crystal grains and dark in color. What kind of rock might it be? Explain your reasoning.

Mr. Bruno found a rock a that has flattened grains and parallel bands of minerals. What kind of rock might it be? Explain your reasoning.

Compare and contrast rocks and minerals.

If you are a rock collector interested in finding fossils, what kind of rock would you need to look for and WHY?

Solid material that makes up Earth's crust and is composed of one or more minerals.

• Organic.
• Rock
• Rock Cycle

Type of rock where one rock is changed into another type of rock through heat and pressure.

• Rock
• Compaction
• Metamorphic rock

Texture of metamorphic rocks where mineral grains change, combine, and rearrange but not into visible bands.

• Foliated
• Non-foliated
• Extrusive

Sedimentary rock that was formed by once living things.

• Organic
• Metamorphic rock
• Extrusive

General term for when igneous rock is formed when magma cools beneath Earth's surface.

• Metamorphic rock
• Extrusive
• Intrusive

Texture of rocks that in which the mineral grains are flattened and line up to form visible, parallel bands.

• Metamorphic rock
• Foliated
• Non-foliated