Rock Cycle
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The breaking down of Earth's
rocks and mineral into smaller
particles through direct contact
with the atmosphere.
(wind, water and Ice)
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Weathering
Breaking down of mineral or
rock material by entirely
mechanical methods.
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Physical Break Down
The composition of the
weathered rock is changed.
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Chemical Weathering
The process that moves
weathered sediments from
one location to another.
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Erosion
When sediments stop traveling
by water or wind and settles out
and accumulates in one place.
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Deposition
This happens to magma
and lava once they harden.
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Igneous Rock Forms.
Fire Up rock that is
formed from lava that
erupted onto Earth’s surface
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Extrusive Rock
Fire Up rock that forms when
magma cools and hardens
beneath Earth’s surface
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Intrusive
The more slowly molten rock
cools within the Earth,
the ________the Fire Up
rocks crystals will be.
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Larger
The name of the Igneous
rock that is smooth
and shiny when it is cooled.
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Obsidian
A rock formed when
sediments are buried,
compressed, and cemented
together.
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Sedimentary Rock
A rock formed when
sediments are buried,
compressed, and cemented
together.
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Sedimentary Rock
Something that is found
almost only in
sedimentary rock.
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Fossils
What step in the rock cycle would be
required to change granite into sandstone?
a. Magma hardens into granite sediment
b. granite particles settle on the ocean floor.
c. Lava flows melt the granite sediment
d. Pieces of granite melt when they return
to the mantle by subduction.
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b. granite particles settle on the ocean floor
What type of sedimentary rock
forms when minerals that
are dissolved in a
solution crystallize
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Chemical Rock
Rocks driven underground
where heat and pressure
partially melt and recrystallize
form this type of rock.
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Metamorphic Rock
The heat that changes a rock
into metamorphic rock
comes from the ___________
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The heat of the Mantle
What type of rocks can be
changed during the
Metamorphic phase
of the rock cycle.
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Igneous, metamorphic
and sedimentary rocks.
Rock that has grains arranged
in parallel layers.
(also known as banding)
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Foliated
___________and ________ are
orces that can cause Igneous
rock to become magma
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Subduction and melting
Minerals are classified
according to
their ____________.
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Properties
The hardness of minerals
can be measured be this
hardness scale;
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Mohs Hardness Scale
A set of atoms that are
arranged in in a repeating
pattern are called…
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Chrystaline structure
Minerals may form when
solutions ____________
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Evaporate
Place a mineral on over a
printed page and look at the
word, you see two images.
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Light Refraction