Rocky the Rock Hound
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1. What does the term eroded mean?  How is it relevant in the formation of rocks?

 

 

2. What role does water play in the formation of sedimentary rocks?

 

 

3. What type of rock is schist and how is it formed?

 

 

4. What happens to cause a rock to be "morphed" into another type of rock.  

 

 

5. Explain where one would find pumice, the reason it would be found there and how it was formed. 

 

 

 

6. Compare and contrast an igneous rock and a sedimentary rock.

 

 

 

7. Compare and contrast an igneous rock with a metamorphic rock.

 

 

 

8. Compare and contrast a sedimentary rock and a metamorphic rock.