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3/24-25:
1) How can I tell if a mineral formed quickly or slowly? 2) How do rocks and minerals differ? 3) What are some of the properties that we use to identify a mineral? 3/26-27: 1) Cooling magma will always make which type of rock? 2)What is Foliation? 3) Why do igneous rocks sometimes have holes in them? 3/28 & 31: 1) List the process to turn a Metamorphic rock into an Igneous rock. 2) List the process to turn Sediment into a Metamorphic rock. 3) List the process to turn an Igneous rock into Sediment 4/1-2: 1) How are weathering and Erosion different? 2)How can you use index fossils to date a layer of strata? 3) What does the Law of Superposition say? 4)What evidence could we look for to tell what type of environment a certain layer of strata was deposited in? |
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The Grand Canyon is one of the most recognizable geology features on Earth. But how did it get there? Geologists explore the regions past and discover that the history of this majestic canyon is richer than we might, at first, assume.
Loch Ness
For centuries there have been myths and legends of some kind of marine monster in Loch Ness. What can geology tell us about this mystery? Is it possible to use science to fully answer the question? And what can we learn about how the landscape of Scotland was formed and what it's past was like?
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