Rock Cycle Sample Identification Data Sheet

Sample Code: Location Collected: Rock Name:

Please Classify your sample using EACH criterion below:

Color: Light Medium Dark

Mass: Light Medium Heavy

Skip-ability: Sinker Skipper Floater

Tool Potential: Cutter Chopper Smasher

How it Breaks: Splitter Crumbler Unbreakable

Physical Composition: Layered Non-layered Non-layered

Homogeneous Heterogeneous

Chemical Composition: Iron Rich Silica Rich Carbonate Rich

Geologic Environment

Where Found: Ocean Lowland Mountain

Where Formed: On Dry Land Underwater Earth’s Interior

Formation Subterranean Deep Water Shallow Water

Sub-environment:

Beach River Swamp Dry Land

How Formed: Cooling from Molten State

Assembled from Fragments of Other Rock

Deformation of Other Rock without Melting