Bethwin Angela Cabacungan

11 – STEM RIZAL
Earth Science
Quarter 2 – Module 4:
Metamorphism

Semi-fieldwork Activity
Go to your backyard, home, or school garden or in any place near and safe
for you to collect some metamorphic rocks and bring them home. (make sure to
clean them first and don’t forget to wash your hands)
Make a table similar to the one below and make a log of the information about
the rocks that you collected.

Rock Picture Describe the Classify the Write your

Sample features of the type of the inference about
number metamorphic rock metamorphic how the rock
sample rock samples undergone
sample metamorphism.
1 - a nonfoliated Regional Because quartz
metamorphic or Contact is stable over a
rock that wide range of
consists mostly pressure and
of quartz. temperature,
little or no new
minerals form in
quartzite during
metamorphism.
- a white to pale Instead, the
gray rock, but quartz grains
occurs in other recrystallize
colors, including into a denser,
red and pink harder rock
(from iron than the original
QUARTZITE oxide), yellow, sandstone.
blue, green, and
orange.

- a grainy
surface with a
sandpaper
texture, but
polishes to a
glassy shine.

2 - It is a fine- Regional Slates form at

 grained, low
metamorphic metamorphic
rock formed by grade by the
SLATE compression of growth of fine
sedimentary grained chlorite
shale, and clay
mudstone, or minerals. The
basalt. preferred
orientation of
these sheet
- Gray slate is silicates causes
common, but the rock to
the rock occurs easily break
in a variety of along the
colors, including planes parallel
brown, purple, to the sheet
green, and blue. silicates,
causing a
slatey
- It consists cleavage.
mainly of
silicates (silicon
and oxygen),
phyllosilicates
(potassium and
aluminum
silicate), and
aluminosilicates
(aluminum
silicate).

- The term
“slate” also
refers to objects
made from the
rock, such as
slate tablets or
roofing tiles.

- The phrases
“clean slate”
and “blank
slate” refer to
slate’s use in
chalkboards.

3 - a high grade Regional Gneiss usually

 metamorphic forms by
rock, meaning regional
that it has been metamorphism
subjected to at convergent
higher plate
temperatures boundaries. It is
and pressures a high-grade
than schist. metamorphic
rock in which
- It is mineral grains
characterized recrystallized
by alternating under intense
light and dark heat and
GNEISS bands differing pressure.
in mineral
composition
(coarser grained
than schist).