THE ROCK CYCLE
Weathering
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What is weathering?
What are the three types of weathering?
What is physical weathering?
What are the two types of physical weathering?
Where does physical weathering occur?
What is chemical weathering?
What is the best type of climate for chemical weathering?
What are the three types of chemical weathering?
Erosion & Transport
9. What is erosion?
10. How is erosion different than weathering?
11. What of the four types of erosion?
12. What are the four different types of erosion by gravity?
13. How is wind erosion a serious environmental problem?
14. What are the two types of erosion by water?
15. What are the two types of erosion by ice?
Deposition of Sediment
16. What is deposition?
17.What are the five ways that sediment grains can be transported and
deposited by wind, water and ice?
18.What does the Nile River and the Mississippi River have in common that
was created as a result of sediment deposition?
19.What are moraines?
20. What are sand dunes?
21. What is deposition of sand is rich in nutrients and burrowing organisms
resulting in the attraction of sea birds?
22. Why is the continental slope not a good resting place for deposition?
Burial & Compaction
23. What is the principle of superposition?
24.What are sedimentary basins?
25. During compaction, what has bonded around sediment grains & bonded
them together?
Deformation & Metamorphism
26. What deformation?
27.What is metamorphism?
Melting
28.What are the three reasons that melting takes place?
29. Look at all the picture & data of the volcanoes around the world, what is
the most common type in this set?
Crystallization of Magma
30. Does the cooling rate of magma affect the presence and/or the size of the
crystals that are created into rock?
31. What determines whether eruptions are effusive or explosive?
32. What three things could these eruptions possibly produce?
33. What was Pompeii?
34. What is the highest percentage of gas in a volcanic explosion?
35. Which is hotter? Explosive or Effusive eruptions?
36. What are the three types of lava forms?
37. What type of lava formation is created under the sea?
38. What are the three types of igneous intrusions?
Uplift
39.What is uplift?
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Who as long ago as 1750, realized that most of the Earth’s land surface was
being weathered and eroded and yet, surprisingly, has never been entirely
worn away?
Who grouped rock layers into “time periods” according to the fossil groups
they contained and produced the first Geological Map of Britain?
Igneous Rock
42. What is igneous rock?
43. What are four types of igneous rocks?
44.What are four uses of basalt?
45.What are three uses of pumice?
46.What are four uses of gabbro?
47.What are five uses of granite?
Metamorphic Rock
48.What is metamorphic rock?
49.What are four types of metamorphic rock?
50.What are five uses of slate?
51.What are five uses of gneiss?
52. What are two uses of schist?
53. What are six uses of marble?
Sedimentary Rock
54. What is sedimentary rock?
55. What are four types of sedimentary rock?
56. What is considered to be not a very useful rock?
57. What are four uses of sandstone?
58. What are three uses of mudstone?
59.What are three types of limestone?
60. What are six uses of limestone?
The Rock Cycle (KS3)
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/ks3/gsl/education/resources/rockcycle.html