Thursday, October 22, 2009

Rock Rap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8O7Y5JnVU&NR=1

Sure these girls are a little weird but they get the rock cycle down okay.

And a little chicago field trip review of each building...

Orchestra Hall - made of limestone sedimentary rock

Wrigley Building - made of terra cotta tiles(clay a sedimentary rock formed from years of weathering)

Tribune Tower - made of limestone has bits of famous buildings like : The Taj Mahal, The Parthenon, The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Alamo, Notre-Dame, Abraham Lincoln’s tomb, The Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall.

Carbon and Carbide Building (hard rock hotel) - made of black granite and black marble. granite is an igneous rock and marble is a metamorphic rock formed from limestone. the marble contains the fossil snail Maclurites Magnus.

The Water Tower - made of limestone a sedimentary rock

344 N Michigan Ave. - made of granite a slow cooling igneous rock, limestone a sedimentary rock, and terra cotta (clay) a sedimentary rock

Chicago Cultural Center - is made of granite and if you want to get married then you can get married here

Pittsfield building - made of limestone that contains ammonoid and belemite fossils

Michigan Avenue Bridge - made of limestone sedimentary rock

These are some of the main facts about each of these buildings.

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