Metamorphic Rocks , Mountain Building & Earthquakes

Unit 6:

Metamorphic Rocks , Mountain building & EarthQuakes

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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

Warm Up # / Date / Question(s) / Answer(s)
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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 of material… / …and are formed by these processes
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.

A. B. C.

Compare & contrast

Fill out the Venn diagram to compare and contrast intrusive and extrusive igneous rock textures.

Extrusive Intrusive

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
Thick clouds of ash blanketed villages at the foot of this volcano. A series of powerful eruptions sent residents fleeing and cut power to thousands of villages. In each explosion, the volcano belched red hot rocks and a column of ash as high as 7.5 miles. Lava raced down the slope at 50 mph. / 2. Description: Kilauea Volcano
Lava was welling up vigorously on the western side of this lake, moving west to east across the lake and pouring into a 30x30 meter incandescent hole. The constantly churning lake surface was almost entirely incandescent. Lava consumed the 700 year old 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.
Type: / Type:
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3. Description: Mt. Etna Volcano
On 2/14, this volcano erupted and shot ash and rock through its southeast crater. Lava flowed down the uninhabited flank of the volcano. Ash was found 15 miles from the volcano. Two coastal communities located on Mt. Etna’s slopes were covered in ash. On 10/25 glowing rocks were shot into the air. Volcanologists expect a lava flow will eventually work its way through a fissure in the central crater and move down its western slope. / 4. Description: Paricutin Volcano
Paricutin is the famous “volcano that grew out of a cornfield”. It was not really a very dangerous eruption for people, but it was quite destructive of their agricultural lands, livestock, and a way of life. The eruption lasted from 1943 until 1952, produced a large cinder and ash cone, and covered an area about 8 km by 8 km with slow-moving lava flows.
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