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    The document discusses different types of rocks and how they form. It notes that sedimentary rocks like limestone, coal, and chalk can be used for making cement, fuel, and writing. Sedimentary rocks are most likely to contain oil and gas because they form from compacted particles in spaces that can trap carbon compounds. Igneous rocks like granite and basalt form from cooling magma, with granite having large crystals from slow cooling below ground and basalt having small crystals from fast above-ground cooling. Metamorphic rocks like marble form from the heat and pressure changing other rocks, though fossils are rarely preserved through this process.

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    The document discusses different types of rocks and how they form. It notes that sedimentary rocks like limestone, coal, and chalk can be used for making cement, fuel, and writing. Sedimentary rocks are most likely to contain oil and gas because they form from compacted particles in spaces that can trap carbon compounds. Igneous rocks like granite and basalt form from cooling magma, with granite having large crystals from slow cooling below ground and basalt having small crystals from fast above-ground cooling. Metamorphic rocks like marble form from the heat and pressure changing other rocks, though fossils are rarely preserved through this process.

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    The Earth – Rocks and Soils

    1. Make a list of five different ways that rocks can be used.


     Making Cement (Limestone) (Sedimentary Origin)
     Fire (Coal) (Sedimentary Origin)
     Writing (Chalk) (Sedimentary Origin)
     Building Material (Sandstone) (Sedimentary Origin)
     Bath Scrub (Pumice) (Igneous Origin)
     Kerb Stone (Granite) (Igneous Origin)
     Roofing Material (Slate) (Metamorphic Origin)
     Statue/Ornaments/Decoration (Marble) (Metamorphic Origin)
     Valuable source of minerals (Gold, Diamond, Sapphire e.t.c)
     Some rocks acts as tourist attraction sites.

    2. Which rock is most likely to contain oil or gas? Why?


    The types of rocks that contain oil and natural gas are all sedimentary rocks.
    Because, these rocks formed when grains and mineral particles deposited by
    running water fuse together. Because these rocks are cemented together from
    such small components, they are porous, full of spaces in which energy-rich
    carbon compounds can settle, later to be liberated in the form of either oil or gas.

    3. Look at the figure 6.9. Would you expect rocks with small crystals to form at A, B or
    C?
    It is at A, because magma that cools slowly will form an igneous rock with large crystals
    and lava that cools quickly will form an igneous rock with small crystals.

    4. Would you expect rocks with large crystals to form at A,B or C?


    Large crystals will for at C, lower the magma, the cooling and solidification takes longer
    and the crystals become larger.

    5. Explain why granite has large crystals and basalt has small crystals.
    If the rock cools slowly, there is plenty of time for a large grid pattern to form. This
    makes large crystals. Granite forms from the slow crystallization of magma below
    Earth's surface. Hence it has large crystals.

    If the rock cools down quickly, there is much less time for the particles to become
    ordered and so smaller crystals are made. Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock that
    forms when lava reaches the Earth's surface at a volcano and crystallizes fast.

    6. What properties does pumice have, that make it different from other igneous rocks?
    Pumice is lighter and less denser. It is fine grained and highly porous.

    7. Why do you think the rock has holes in it?


    Pumice is extrusive rock and form outside of the volcano usually on top of
    lava flows. The top of these lava flows become very frothy and when they cool
    the gasses in the lava expand and escape forming air hole or vesicles in rock.
    8. The layers of sandstone at uluru (figure 6.15) contain many fossils of sea animals. How
    did these fossils get to the middle of Australia?
    Fossils are generally found in Sedimentary rocks. Uluru is composed mainly of layer
    after layer of a type of coarse sandstone known as arkose. Due to tectonic activity 500
    million years ago, the land mass of Australia gets separated from the rest of the world.

    9. Could marble contain fossils? Why?


    Marbles are metamorphic rocks. Fossils rarely occur in metamorphic rocks. The heat
    and pressure required to change, or metamorphose, rocks usually destroys any fossils.

    10. Describe how igneous rocks are changed into metamorphic rocks.
    All rock can be heated. Inside Earth there is heat from pressure that
    bakes the rock. Baked rock does not melt, but it does change. It
    forms crystals. If it has crystals already, it forms larger crystals.
    Because this rock changes, it is called metamorphic. When massive
    amounts of heat and pressure are applied to an igneous rock or sedimentary
    rock, it compacts and becomes a metamorphic rock.

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