Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Rock Types Blog Post

Rock cycle-

        Rock cycle shows how rocks form. There are three types of rocks: Sedimentary rock, igneous rock, and metamorphic rock. Each type of rock can form to other rock. Igneous rock can turn into sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock can turn into metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rock can turn into igneous rock. This is how the rock cycle work and why is call the rock cyacle.

        Igneous rocks form from magma and lava. Magma and lava is from melted metamorphic rock. Magma and lava turns into rock by cooling and become igneous rock. This step is call solidification. Solidification means liquid turn into solid by cool temperature.

Then igneous rock will break down to many pieces. When weathering and erosion happen, the broken rocks will move to another place. The broken pieces of rocks are call sediments. When compaction and cementation happen, the sediments will get push together and glue together. And that is how sedimentary rocks form.

Sedimentary rock can turn into metamorphic rock. First, sedimentary rock gets heat by hot temperature. Then it got pressure, with mean get push.  So, metamorphic rock forms by heat and pressure. Also, metamorphic rock can turn to igneous rock. When metamorphic rock melts by hot temperature, it becomes magma or lava. Then magma or lava will become igneous rock.

The rock cycle show how rocks form and show that the relationships between igneous rock, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock. All the rock can form to other rock and form from other rock. For example metamorphic rock can form into igneous rock and form from sedimentary rock. The rock cycle is like a circle, the rock change all the time to other rock. But, to change to other rock might take a long time. Anyway, rock cycle is amazing and cool.

Rocks-
metamorphic rock-Rock form by pressure heat and pressure
magma-melted rock inside the volcano.
lava-melted rock outside the volcano.
solidification-liquid became solid by cooling.
Igneous rock-  form from cooling of magma .
weathering-break rock into small pieces by wind and water
erosion-bring rock to a new place
sediment-broken piece of rock.
compaction-push rock together
cementation-glued rocks together
sedimentary rock-rock that form from many piece of rock

Rock type-
Igneous intruive-inside volcano and have big crystal.
igneous extrusive-outside the volcano and have small crystals.
sedimentary-clastic-formed from little fragments that are glued together.
sedimentary-bioclastic-form from dead animal.
sedimentary-crystalline-fromed under water.
metamorphic-foliated-have layer.
metamorphic-non-foliated -don't have layer.


Sunday, October 28, 2012

Crystals & Mineral Blog Post

crystals- In the crystal growth lab, our class learn how to grow crystals. Also, we learn about mineral. We identify different type of mineral. Some mineral is metallic and some mineral is non metallic. Each rock have their own hardness. Hardness is how hard is a rock. And some mineral break evenly and some mineral break evenly. We call these cleavage and fracture. Anyway, we learn a lot about mineral in the crystal growth lab.

Vocab-
Luster- metallic- mineral that look like metal.
 

nonmetallic-mineral that don't look like metal.

Color- what you see outside the mineral.
Streak- scratch the mineral on the streak plate.
Hardness- how hard is a mineral.
Cleavage- mineral that break evenly.
Fracture- mineral that break unevenly.

Mineral identification-1.
     metamorphic rock
color-white
fracture
type-foliated
                                                                     Luster-non mictallic
2.

 
sedimentary rock
color-grey
fracture
type-clastic
Luster-non mictallic
                                          

Saturday, October 13, 2012

About me

Science is helpful to people.
I like to play video games.
Loneliness scares me.
Dumpling is my favorite food.
I will be an office worker when I grow up.
I have one sibling.
My favorite color is orange.
My favorite thing to do is play computer game or watch movies.
Watch out for ture friendship and not to lose them.
I wish I have a good future.