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Understanding the Rock Cycle for Beginners

Explore the Rock Cycle model illustrating the interrelation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Discover the dynamic process of rock transformation and the factors influencing these changes. Find answers to common questions about rock transitions and learn how heat, pressure, weathering, erosion, and more shape the Earth's crust.

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Understanding the Rock Cycle for Beginners

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  1. The Rock Cycle How it all comes together!

  2. III. The Rock Cycle • Is a model used to show how the three rock types - ______, __________, and __________ - are related to each other. It also shows the process in which each of the rock types are produced. Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic

  3. Changing Rock Types • Any rock type can change into any other __________. • There is no preferred direction of movement from one rock type to another. rock type

  4. Questions • How does an Igneous rock become a Metamorphic rock? • Add heat & Pressure to change the parent rock. • List all the things that must happen for an Igneous rock to become a Sedimentary rock. • Weathering & Erosion; Sediments form, they are deposited, buried & compacted, then cemented to form a Sed. Rock. • Describe all the things that must happen for a Metamorphic rock to become an Igneous rock. • Melting to become magma, then solidification. • Describe all the things that must happen for a Sedimentary rock to become an Igneous rock. • Melting to become magma, then solidification (that’s 1 way!) • What is the molten rock called that when is solidifies will become an Igneous rock • Magma if below ground, Lava if on the Earth’s Surface.

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