Which of these rocks would be good for:

• Making a statue?
• Building a dam?
• Making a fireplace?
• Solid foundations?

Which of the rocks would be best for:

• Storing water within it?
• Storing oil or gas within it?
• Showing that sedimentary rocks are made of lots of fragments?
• Showing that igneous rocks have interlocking crystals?
• Showing that metamorphic rocks often have aligned minerals?
• Showing that some rocks contain traces of past life?

Which rocks (2 or more) would best show:

• Sedimentary rocks ranging from coarse to fine?
• The difference between igneous rocks that formed by slow cooling and fast-cooled igneous rocks?
• Metamorphic rocks that don’t have aligned minerals?
• The metamorphic rocks that show a sequence of increasing metamorphism from an initial mudstone sedimentary rock?

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