Unit 6:
Metamorphic Rocks , Mountain building & EarthQuakes
Name: Block: Teacher: Earth Science Table of contents
Page # Page Title/Assignment 1 Daily Warm Ups
2 Vocabulary Illustrations & Examples
3 Igneous Rock vocab
4 Rock Cycle Poster
5 Rock Cycle Info
6 Texture labeling
Compare & Contrast: Venn diagram
7 Igneous Rock Notes
8 Landform Labeling
9 Intrusive Igneous Rock Structures
10 What type of Volcano am I?
11 Volcano Notes Daily Warm Ups
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7 Illustrations & Examples Directions: For each vocabulary word, draw a picture or list some examples. Pictures can be inspired by the definition of the word. Examples can include things in general that make you think of the word, or you may look some examples up on the internet. Vocabulary Rock cycle poster/drawing Directions handed out in class and posted on website. Rock Cycle Questions
Read pp. 118-120 in your textbook. Answer the questions below. These are your notes!
1. What is a rock? How are they alike and different from minerals?
2. (True/False) All of the different types of rock can become any other type of rock.
3. Is the rock cycle one single pathway or a complex web of alternate pathways? Defend your answer.
4. Fill out the follow chart about the 3 different types of rocks:
This type of rock… …comes from this type …and are formed by these processes of material… Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks APPLICATION: How do you think plate tectonics affect the Rock Cycle and its processes? (You can use your Plate Tectonics INB!!!)
Igneous rock texture Name the type of igneous rock texture that each picture represents.
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Compare & contrast Fill out the Venn diagram to compare and contrast intrusive and extrusive igneous rock textures.
Extrusive Intrusive MetaMorphic Rock Notes
MetaMorphic Rock Notes Volcano notes Intrusive structures Using your notes on p. 9, label the four pictures below.
What type of volcano am I?
1. Description: Mayan Volcano 2. Description: Kilauea Volcano
Thick clouds of ash blanketed villages at the foot of Lava was welling up vigorously on the western side of this volcano. A series of powerful eruptions sent this lake, moving west to east across the lake and residents fleeing and cut power to thousands of pouring into a 30x30 meter incandescent hole. The villages. In each explosion, the volcano belched red constantly churning lake surface was almost entirely hot rocks and a column of ash as high as 7.5 miles. incandescent. Lava consumed the 700 year old Lava raced down the slope at 50 mph. Waialua Heian temple. Lava poured over the 4 foot high walls and continued on into the ocean. In both 1989 and 1990, lava crept near the temple but was diverted around it.
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3. Description: Mt. Etna Volcano 4. Description: Paricutin Volcano
On 2/14, this volcano erupted and shot ash and rock Paricutin is the famous “volcano that grew out of a through its southeast crater. Lava flowed down the cornfield”. It was not really a very dangerous eruption uninhabited flank of the volcano. Ash was found 15 for people, but it was quite destructive of their miles from the volcano. Two coastal communities agricultural lands, livestock, and a way of life. The located on Mt. Etna’s slopes were covered in ash. On eruption lasted from 1943 until 1952, produced a large 10/25 glowing rocks were shot into the air. cinder and ash cone, and covered an area about 8 km Volcanologists expect a lava flow will eventually by 8 km with slow-moving lava flows. work its way through a fissure in the central crater and move down its western slope.
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