Lesson 3 – Review Questions

Please answer these questions either in your notebook or with a computer. You can use your notes or textbook to answer the questions (unless your teacher/parent says otherwise). In the next step, you or your teacher/parent will be able to check your answers.

1. Why is the study of rocks important?  

2. Be able to sketch the rock cycle (figure 3.4) without referring to the diagram!  

3. Be able to sketch and identify the different types of plutons from photographs.  

4. What are the main criteria in the identification of igneous rocks? Can you sketch out a diagram for the identification of igneous rocks?  

5. Can you explain Bowens Reaction Series to someone who is unfamiliar with it?  

6. Why are radiohalos important in a biblical understanding of earth history?  

7. If you heated up a granite rock and melted it, what would melt first? Second? Third?