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Lesson 10 Homework |Rock Identification Lab

By Will Pollard
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25 Questions

ROCK IDENTIFICATION LAB

  1. Based on its key characteristics, determine if each rock sample is igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary.
  2. For each sample, you need to give a correct reason for your classification, based on properties displayed in the rock sample.
  3. Answer the questions that follow the rock samples.

Rock Sample 1

1.

Rock sample 1: Identify the type of rock

2.

Rock sample 1: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 2

3.

Rock sample 2: Identify the type of rock

4.

Rock sample 2: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 3

5.

Rock sample 3: Identify the type of rock

6.

Rock sample 3: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 4

7.

Rock sample 4: Identify the type of rock

8.

Rock sample 4: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 5

9.

Rock sample 5: Identify the type of rock

10.

Rock sample 5: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 6

11.

Rock sample 6: Identify the type of rock

12.

Rock sample 6: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 7

13.

Rock sample 7: Identify the type of rock

14.

Rock sample 7: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 8

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Rock sample 8: Identify the type of rock

16.

Rock sample 8: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 9

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Rock sample 9: Identify the type of rock

18.

Rock sample 9: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

Rock Sample 10

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Rock sample 10: Identify the type of rock

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Rock sample 10: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.

21.
  • Foliated Texture
  • Clastic Texture
  • Banding
  • Chemical Rocks
  • Vesicular
  • Lithification
  • Alignment of Mineral Grains
  • Silt-sized Particles
  • Felsic Composition
  • Glassy Texture
  • Evaporite Deposits
  • Crystals less than 1 mm
  • Angular Fragments
  • Stretched or Deformed Pebbles
  • Intergrown crystals
  • Fossils
  • Heat and Pressure
  • Solidification
  • Compaction and Cementation
  • Gneiss
  • Granite
  • Conglomerate
  • Igneous
  • Metamorphic
  • Sedimentary
22.

Match each of the metamorphic rocks listed below with one possible parent rock from the following list: bitumi-
nous coal, shale, limestone, slate, granite, sandstone.

Anthracite Coal
Slate
Marble
Schist
Gneiss
Quartzite
23.

Base your answer on the pictures of four rocks. Each circle shows a magnified view of a rock. Which rock is metamorphic and shows evidence of foliation?

24.

How are the three rock types classified?

25.

Base your answer(s) to the following question(s) on the rock cycle diagram below.
State the specific names of rocks A, B, and C in the diagram. Not all rock names are used. Only one rock name should be used for rocks A, B, and C.

  • Obsidian
  • Rock Salt
  • Shale
  • Metaconglomerate
  • Gneiss
  • Rhyolite
  • Granite
  • Rock A
  • Rock B
  • Rock C