Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Earth Science Unit 3 Day 4 Continued

Learning Objective: Students will learn about scientific 

classification by doing a lab activity and will analyze and 

interpret their data in writing using technical vocabulary 

(plate tectonics, cementation, deposition, minerals, 

compaction, clastic) and science ideas (rock cycle).

Questions:

  1. How are sedimentary rocks formed? (book or brain)
  2. How are sedimentary rocks similar to metamorphic rocks? (book or brain)
  3. Which features tells you how large the grains of a sedimentary rock are?

Answer choices for number 3:
 
  • A. Composition
  • B. Texture
  • C. Stratification
  • D. Sorting