ROCK QUEST STUDY GUIDE

 

  1. What are the characteristics of a mineral?

 

 

  1. Identify 8 elements that most minerals are made of.

 

 

  1. Name the 3 classes of rock and how each form.

 

 

  1. What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive?  How are they the same?

 

 

  1. Draw the rock cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Find relative age of a rock by looking at a diagram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the difference between relative and absolute age?  How do we find each?

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the difference between weathering and erosion?

 

 

 

  1. What are the two types of physical weathering?  Explain each.

 

 

 

  1. What are the 3 types of chemical weathering?  Explain each.

 

 

 

  1. What are the 3 ways that material can be eroded?