1. Using only your own knowledge, draw a mental map connecting your house or campus to the nearest outcrop of rock.

2. Do all rocks, those of the oceans and those of the continents, experience recycling in the rock cycle? Explain.

3. Without exhumation, would we be able to find metamorphic rocks at Earth’s surface? Explain.

4. How do shale and coal relate to climate change?

5. Weigh the pros and cons of fracking. If it were proposed for the region where you live, do you think you would support it or oppose it? If it is already going on in your region, do you think it has had a positive or a negative influence on that region?