- Akron Central Schools
- Earth Science
- Rocks & Minerals
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Science - Mr. Ritchie
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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