Engineering Geology Date: 23/12/2024
1st year students
College of Engineering
Civil department
Homework: Answer the following questions.
The homework must be submitted to Mr. Rizgar due 4/1/2025 as a PDF file.
1- What are the most common elements in the continental crust?
2- What are silicates?
3- What is the definition for a mineral?
4- What characteristic properties can be used to identify minerals?
5- What are the three main groups of rocks?
6- How are igneous rocks classified?
7- What are the most common igneous rocks?
8- What are the three basic types of sedimentary rocks?
9- What controls the grain size of clastic sediments?
10- What are the three size classes for clastic sediments?
11- What is lithification?
12- How do chemical sedimentary rocks form?
13- How would coal be classified as a sedimentary rock?
14- What is metamorphism?
15- What is the temperature range for metamorphism?
16- How does contact metamorphism occur?
17- Where does regional metamorphism occur?
18- What factors influence the development of a foliation?
19- What is the rock cycle?
20- What is Subduction
21- Describe the rule of Subduction in the movement and recycling of Earth’s
lithosphere.
22- What is Earth's physical structure?
23- What are the main components of the internal physical structure of the
Earth's?
24- What is the Igneous rock forming minerals?
25- What is the difference between Felsic and Mafic rocks?
26- Which mineral groups form light colored igneous rocks?
27- Which mineral groups form dark colored igneous rocks?
28- How do you, as an engineer, identify rocks in the field?
29- Why is the Earth's inner core solid despite its extremely high temperature of
about 6000 Co?
