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Earth Materials CALCITE QUEST. Lori Mitchell. Investigation #3. IT’S ROCK TIME STARRING Basalt Limestone Marble & Sandstone. Investigation # 3. Materials needed 1 FOSS tray 4 sticky notes Small basalt Small limestone Small Marble Small Sandstone. ROCK TIME.
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Earth MaterialsCALCITE QUEST Lori Mitchell
Investigation #3 IT’S ROCK TIME STARRING • Basalt • Limestone • Marble & • Sandstone
Investigation # 3 • Materials needed • 1 FOSS tray • 4 sticky notes • Small basalt • Small limestone • Small Marble • Small Sandstone
ROCK TIME • Each group member will select a rock and write the name on it on both sides of the sticky note. (basalt, limestone, marble, sandstone) • What would a geologist do given four new rocks to study? • On page 10 of the Earth Materials Booklet record your observations of each rock.
All of the samples are rocks. • Now come and get a sample of one of the minerals we used from the last test. • Can you name the mineral? • CALCITE
What is cool about Calcite? • Each group needs 5 vials, a syringe, and a container of vinegar • Put the calcite in a vial • Carefully add 25ml of vinegar to the vial with the calcite. • Observe and record what happens on page 11.
Which rocks do you think contain calcite? • Put the four vials into the corner sockets in the FOSS trayPut one rock sample in each vial. • Carefully add vinegar to each vial until the level is about 1 cm from the top(25 ml) • Observe and record what happens.
REPORT RESULTS • Put a check next to the rocks that you think contain calcite. • Do we need another test? • Let’s let them sit overnight and then check them for more clues.
Is there another test WE can do to know for sure which rocks contain calcite?
HOW WILL YOU KNOW? • If something is left in the dish after the liquid has evaporated, how will you know it is evidence that calcite was in the rock and not just something else?
PART 2 • Materials needed • Each group needs their FOSS tray • 6 evaporation dishes • Plastic cup with vinegar • syringe • Two new sticky notes
Set up the investigation • Put vinegar only in one dish and label • Put the liquid from the calcite vial into another dish and label. (These are your controls. • Follow the same procedure for the rock vials. • Clean up.
LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE • Observe the dishes being careful not to break any deposits. • Compare the rock deposits to the calcite and vinegar. • Draw your observations on page 12 of your Earth Materials Notebook. • Share observations
Looking for evidence • Did you find a deposits of white crystals in the calcite, limestone, and marble dishes? • Is there just a slight residue in the vinegar, basalt, and sandstone dishes. • Did you notice the needlelike crystals?
DISCUSSION TIME • Where did the calcite in the dish come from? • How long did it take the calcite to dissolve? • Would limestone and marble be affected by acid rain? • Would these rocks erode faster or slower if the rainwater did not contain acid?
Rock Types • Basalt: a dark, fine-grained rock that began as molten lava extruded from a volcano or rift and then cooled quickly on the earth’s surface. • Granite: an igneous rock that forms when magma (molten rock) forms deep in the Earth’s crust. • Limestone: one common sedimentary rock – has a wide variety of colors, textures, & origins and consist mostly of mineral calcite. They form where water is present. • Marble: a metamorphic rock, is limestone that has been altered by heat & pressure – usually white by tinted by other minerals – often used as columns or countertops • Mock rock: forms from common ingredients found in your kitchen (flour, salt, water, food coloring, & alum) and neighborhood (sand, gravel, & shells) - resemble concrete • Sandstone: a sedimentary rock formed when rocks such as granite are eroded by wind, water, & ice – used as a building stone.
Bibliography • www.fossweb.com http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/Atmosphere/images/acidrain_sm.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dec.ny.gov/images/environmentdec_images/1656acidrainstone.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dec.ny.gov/environmentdec/18654.html&usg=__Lv0W6RpsLodmeRpVdAErcbOJYSA=&h=384&w=252&sz=62&hl=en&start=205&tbnid=PuW5MzTrBL62gM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=81&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dacid%2Brain%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN%26start%3D200