BELL WORK FALL 2009

Bell work is part of your notebook grade. Why do bell work? To help us learn Earth Science! The questions review the previous days work, and some are taken from the UNIT Eseential Questions, which are always on the test.

DATE
UNIT FOUR - ROCKS
SEPT
30

Start a new BELL WORK page in your notebook - PAGE 3

Copy and answer the following -

  1. What is a rock?
  2. What are the three main rock types?
  3. What is the rock cycle?

 

 

 

 
OCT 1

Start a new BELL WORK page in your notebook - PAGE 3

Copy and answer the following -

  1. Where do intrusive igneous rocks form?
  2. What condition creates igneous rocks with visible crystals?
  3. What condition creates igneous rocks with little to no crystals?
  4. What is the main type of rock found in oceanic crust? In continental crust?
Oct 2

Start a new BELL WORK page in your notebook - PAGE 3

Copy and answer the following -

1. What is a clastic sedimentary rock?

2. What is a chemical sedimentary rock?

3. Name the two ways metamorphic rocks form.

4. What are the "agents" of metamorphism?

 

 

 
OCT 5

Copy and answer the following -

  1. What are three rock types of the rock cycle?
  2. What rock type forms from magma?
  3. What rock type forms from heat and pressure?
  4. What rock type forms from weathering, erosion, deposition and cementation?

 

 

 
OCT 6

Study quietly for todays quiz

 
)CT 7

Copy and answer the following -

1. What natural resource is used to make plastics?

2. What natural resource is commonly used in electronics?

3. What is a natural resource used to make cars?

16

Copy and answer the following -

1. Most of eastern North Carolina is composed of what type of rock?

2. What is the most commonly mined natural resource in Wake County?

3. What continent crashed in to North America and formed the NC mountains?

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