Students with their surname starting with....
A-F - Look at Pumice
G-L - Look at Basalt
M-R - Look at Obsidian
S-Z - Look at Thundereggs
Post your responses here for the rock you looked at. ALSO it would be great if you could include an interesting fact about 'your rock'!
Links
Igneous Rocks
Wikipedia Rocks! Search hard for the correct rocks!
Igneous Rock... Scientific Search and photos!
5 comments:
Miss Bate I was looking at Obsidian rock because of my surname order.
Obsidian
Colour - Black, dark grey, charcoal
Looks Like - Glass; plastic
Shiny/ Matt - Shiny
I found out Miss Bate, that it also has another name. It’s called Volcanic Glass because its like glass.
Rebecca M.
Pumice
Pumice was mine and I found a super interesting fact that I want to tell you before I go into colour and stuff.
Pumice can float in water!... AND it’s also that funny stuff that my mum has in her bathroom that she rubs on her feet to keep them soft she says.
Colour - Cream; like white; grey.
Looks Like - Sponge; coral
Shiny/ Matt - I had to look up what matt meant in the dictionary first. I forgot! Matt
Can you get some pumice that we can test to see if it floats in water>?
Eitan D.
Thungereggs
Miss Bate, I only had to have a quick look at the links you gave us because it was only a week ago we went to Thunderbird Park on Mt Tambourine and I remember all of these things.
Colour - cream; grey; white
Looks like - concrete, rock
Shiny/ Matt - Definitely Matt
Small Crystals form on the inside of the thundereggs and if you break them open you can see them. I found this picture that’s super cool.
http://www.sticks-in-stones.com/rockshop/st_nap2.jpg
http://www.mineralatlas.com/mineral%20photos/Q/t107.jpg
Yonatan R.
Rebecca,
That is a really interesting fact that you found about Obsidian Rock! It really does look ssssoooo shiny and also sharp edges like glass!
Eitan,
I have a sample of pumice, obsidian, basalt and thungeregg at school that we are going to look at and test to see if this is true! Amazing fact! Great work!
Yonatan,
Great to see you remember and enjoyed our visit to Thunderbird park! =]
Here are some pictures of a few of these rocks!
Basalt
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/rocks_pics/basalt.jpg
Pumice
http://www.geocities.com/coskuntk/pumice4.jpg
Obsidian
http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/schools/Glossary/obsidian.jpg
Great work and research! Don’t forget to write all of this down into your own tables! We will go over this in class in a few days time =]
Miss Bate
Great post..
Very useful.
Thanks a lot for the post.
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