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Rock Cycle - Rocks (3B)
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Rock Cycle - Rocks (3B)
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Can sands from different areas be related?PROBLEM:
PREDICTION:
MATERIALS: Swift-GH Microscope, hand lens, sand samples
PROCEDURE: Sand reflects the type of rock that it came from. Let's look at 7 sand samples from California and try to figure out if they are related. Take out the sand only when your teacher tells you to. Use the following words to help describe the sand samples: shells, small grains, large grains, quartz or white to clear, grains of sand, chert or red to brown grains of sand, serpentinite or green grains of sand; gray or basalt grains of sand
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Rodeo Beach
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Half Moon Bay
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Cleone
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Bodega
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Montara
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Long Beach
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Monterey
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Which sands do you think are related? Why?CONCLUSION:
