Based on its key characteristics, determine if each rock sample is igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary.
For each sample, you need to give a correct reason for your classification, based on properties displayed in the rock sample.
Answer the questions that follow the rock samples.
Rock sample 1: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 1: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 2: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 2: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 3: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 3: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 4: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 4: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 5: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 5: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 6: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 6: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 7: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 7: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 8: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 8: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 9: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 9: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
Rock sample 10: Identify the type of rock
Rock sample 10: What evidence do you have to back up your identification? Hint: Use the ESRT or your notes.
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
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.
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Limestone | arrow_right_alt | Anthracite Coal |
Sandstone | arrow_right_alt | Slate |
Granite | arrow_right_alt | Marble |
Shale | arrow_right_alt | Schist |
Slate | arrow_right_alt | Gneiss |
Bituminous Coal | arrow_right_alt | Quartzite |
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?
How are the three rock types classified?
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