Exploring Rocks Unit 4: Lesson 1 In what ways can rocks be described?

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Exploring RocksUnit 4: Lesson 1

In what ways can rocks be described?

Rocks

Rocks come in many sizes, color, shapes and texture.

Size

Rocks come in many sizes from boulders to grains of sand and even smaller.

Boulders are big!

Sand grains are tiny

Pebbles are small

Shape

Rocks come in many shapes… round, triangular, square.

Color

Rocks come in many colors...

black, yellow, white, brown, gray, red, blue, pink.

Texture

rough smooth

Describe, compare

coal quartz fossil

Rocks are useful.

size shape color

mass luster odor

conductivity hardness

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