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This week in Science (four)

This week in Science we took a quiz on Topographic Maps and some water Unit topics.  The maps on this need some serious improvements.  You couldn't see or read anything on them.  After the quiz Finley took us about some plate movements.  Some of these are: pushing together making folded mountains, sliding against each other causing an earthquake, pulling apart making a lake or have lava fill the gap, and various other actions.  He also taught the different rocks and how they are formed.  Igneous are formed when lava or magma cools.  An example of this is Pumice after a volcano erupts.  Sedimentary form with intense pressure on loose layers of sand and small rocks.  An example of this would be Shale.  Metamorphic Rocks form wit intense heat and pressure on Sedimentary rocks.  A good example of this would be Coal (a Sedimentary Rock) to Diamonds (a Metamorphic Rock).  He gave us some samples of rocks and sand collected from our town's tributary and we had to make guesses using prior information about what type of rocks they were.