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Inside Rock: What Can You Find in Different Rocks?

The document is a worksheet focused on the study of rocks, including their features, descriptions, and geological time. It contains tasks for examining rocks with a magnifying glass, matching keywords to their descriptions, and using a geological time scale to answer questions. The worksheet encourages hands-on observation and analysis of rock characteristics.

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Inside Rock: What Can You Find in Different Rocks?

The document is a worksheet focused on the study of rocks, including their features, descriptions, and geological time. It contains tasks for examining rocks with a magnifying glass, matching keywords to their descriptions, and using a geological time scale to answer questions. The worksheet encourages hands-on observation and analysis of rock characteristics.

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Inside rock

Task A: Features of rocks


What can you find in different rocks?
Apparatus Method
Selection of rocks
1. Collect one of the rocks and record its name in the table.
Magnifying glass
2. Examine the rock carefully with a magnifying glass.
3. In the table, record what you can see in the rock.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for the rest of your rocks.

rock observation with magnifying glass

Task B: Describing rocks


1) Match each keyword to its correct description.
grain building block of rocks

crystal describes the size, shape and arrangement of a rock’s grains

mineral pieces that make up a rock

interlocking a solid that often has a regular shape and sharp edges

texture does not contain gaps

2) Describe the texture of each rock diagram below. Try to include:


● the shape of grains/ crystals and whether or not they interlock
● the relative size (or sizes) of the grains
● how many different minerals the rock may contain
a) b)

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Inside rock Worksheet

Task C: Using rocks to tell geological time


1) Use the geological time
scale to help you answer the
questions below.

a) Which is the younger epoch:


Triassic or Jurassic?

b) List the eras in order of


oldest to youngest: Mesozoic,
Cenozoic and Paleozoic.

c) How many years apart is the start of the Cambrian and Cretaceous epochs?

2) Take another look at the rocks from Task A, part 1.

a) Is it easy to tell if a rock contains crystals or grains? Explain your answer.

b) What else did you find in the rocks made from grains?

c) What else did you find in the rocks made from crystals?

© Oak National Academy 2024. Produced in partnership with University of York Science Education Group
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