• Rocks & Minerals

    • Name and identify some rock forming minerals
    • List/Describe features used to identify minerals
    • Explain how an igneous rock forms
    • Distinguish between extrusive and intrusive igneous rock and explain how texture relates to igneous rock formation
    • Identify some igneous rocks using ID scheme in ESRT
    • Explain 3 ways sedimentary rocks form
    • Identify some sedimentary rock using the ESRT
    • Relate sediment sorting to rock stratification
    • Explain why fossils are found in sedimentary rocks
    • Explain how metamorphic rock form
    • Identify metamorphic rock and their parents in the ESRT
    • Describe the rock-forming events in the rock cycle