Chapter 2 Rock Box Review

1. Chapter 2 Rock Box Review • Go through this Power Point at home to help review the different rocks and their characteristics. (It’s a way to study without the box of rocks!!) • Remember: Your Chapter 2 Test is a walk-around station test!

2. * Name the rock.* Name the major group.* Name the specific category.* Name the texture.What characteristics do you see?

3. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

4. Conglomerate • Sedimentary • Clastic • Large pebbles • Coarse-grained

5. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

6. Breccia • Sedimentary • Clastic • Coarse-grained • Smaller pebbles than conglomerate

7. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

8. Obsidian • Igneous • Extrusive • Glasslike • No visible crystals • Volcanic

9. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

10. Shale • Sedimentary • Clastic • Fine grained • Grey

11. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

12. Slate • Metamorphic • Foliated • Dark grey/black • thin

13. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

14. Sandstone • Sedimentary • Clastic • Visible grains • Crumbly / sandy

15. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

16. Granite • Igneous • Intrusive • Big, visible crystals • Coarse grained • Black, white, and pink minerals

17. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

18. Gneiss • Metamorphic • Foliated • Flattened crystals • Evidence of pressure

19. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

20. Schist • Metamorphic • Foliated • Flattened crystals • Glittery

21. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

22. Marble • Metamorphic • Non-foliated • White or pink • Evidence of pressure

23. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

24. Quartzite • Metamorphic • Non-foliated • Light in color • Not as “sparkly/crystally” as marble

25. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

26. Pumice • Igneous • Extrusive • Gas bubbles from cooling lava • Has holes • Very light-weight

27. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see. http://www.bgsd.k12.wa.us/hml/jr_cam/science/rocks/igneous.htm Cool site!!

28. Gabbro • Igneous • Intrusive • Coarse-grained • Chunky crystals • Black

29. Name the rock, major group, specific category, texture, and any other characteristics you see.

30. Basalt • Igneous • Extrusive • Fine-grained • Black/ dark grey • Most of the ocean floor is basalt

31. Good Luck!!  • Sources • http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr/rocks/mtrx/gneissL.htm • Geologu.com