A student claimed that a rock has to be igneous because it had quartz crystals. are they correct? explain.
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Chapter 4 Rocks and Minerals
Chapter 4 focuses on Rocks and Minerals, looking at types of rocks.
Lessons included in this chapter:
#10 Rocks
#11 Minerals
#12 Igneous Rocks
#13 Sedimentary Rocks
#14 Metamorphic Rocks
Resources for Teachers can be found under the Chapter #4 Copymaster.
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Rocks Lesson #10
The Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago. The planet was so hot that the entire Earth was molten or liquid. As the Earth cooled, the lightest materials floated to the top and the heaviest materials sank to the center. The outer part of the Earth, the crust, consists of the lightest rock.
Rock Lesson - lava flow
The lightest rocks form the continents, which are made mostly of the rock granite. Most of the granite on the continents has, over millions of years, been broken down, transported, and deposited into sedimentary rock. These layers of sedimentary rock vary from 8-9 miles thick to nothing in some areas like the Canadian Shield of North America. The Canadian Shield has huge outcroppings of granite right on the surface. Under the thick layers of sedimentary rock lies the denser granite.
The granitic continents ride on a much denser rock called basalt. These basalts form the bottom of our continents and the bottoms of our great oceans. This layer of rock extends down to 40 miles from the surface of the earth.
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