Hello there, ever herd of minerals and rocks? Don't you just think about water when I mention mineral?!? Well, I do, a mineral reminds me of some sorts of touchable element that makes up other things. But water may or may not be considered a mineral. Learning about minerals and rocks can be very hard, because you have to remember special facts that make a mineral a real mineral, and you have to able to explain the creation of rock and the process it goes through to become one. So only by reading this little paragraph, I hope you realize that if you have a rock test coming up, you should get going with studying.
Anyways, during the last week, my class and I were studying about rocks,minerals,the water cycle and all facts that follow this. We had about 8 questions we had to answer once we finished researching, and a small test following. We had to know about the rock cycle, and about different types of rocks and minerals. I researched a bit about igneous,metamorphic and sedimentary rock and found out that metamorphic rock is made from sedimentary rock and different igneous rocks. The rock cycle was also one of the topics we had to know, and this is what a rock cycle looks like:
It is pretty hard to read everything, but every single rock can change by a process into a different rock. So practically the rock cycle is a cycle that explains how rocks are transformed,recreated and destroyed. Some of the processes a rock has to go through are: heat,erosion pressure and cooling.
Minerals were also a part of what we had to study, and we had to find out how you can identify a mineral. From my perspective you can identify a minerals by their shape sometimes, but mostly by their crystal arrangement which also includes cleavage,fracture and luster. Some of our questions included are rocks minerals and comparing the two around.This was not exactly the easiest task to finish, it included a lot of researching and concentrating. What I liked learning the most during the last week, was the properties of a mineral and how you can identify if it is one or not. But after all, the last week was pretty fun even thought it was pretty hard,and we had a substitute teacher. But anyways, if I had to repeat this unit, I would.
Anyways, during the last week, my class and I were studying about rocks,minerals,the water cycle and all facts that follow this. We had about 8 questions we had to answer once we finished researching, and a small test following. We had to know about the rock cycle, and about different types of rocks and minerals. I researched a bit about igneous,metamorphic and sedimentary rock and found out that metamorphic rock is made from sedimentary rock and different igneous rocks. The rock cycle was also one of the topics we had to know, and this is what a rock cycle looks like:
Minerals were also a part of what we had to study, and we had to find out how you can identify a mineral. From my perspective you can identify a minerals by their shape sometimes, but mostly by their crystal arrangement which also includes cleavage,fracture and luster. Some of our questions included are rocks minerals and comparing the two around.This was not exactly the easiest task to finish, it included a lot of researching and concentrating. What I liked learning the most during the last week, was the properties of a mineral and how you can identify if it is one or not. But after all, the last week was pretty fun even thought it was pretty hard,and we had a substitute teacher. But anyways, if I had to repeat this unit, I would.
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