Rock formation
Eric Angat
Teacher
Essential Question
How are rocks
formed?
1. What is the Rock cycle?
Any type of rock can
become any type of rock.
Rock cycle is the process where one type
of rock becomes any type of rock.
Uplift and
exposed to
water, wind,
etc.
Weathering
and erosion
sediments
Deposition,
burial,
lithification
Igneous
rock
Sedimentary
rock
Cooling and
crystallization
Rises on the
surface as
lava
Melted into
Magma
Metamorphic
rock
Heat and
pressure
Weathering
and erosion
uplift
sediments
Igneous
rock
Cooling and
crystallization
uplift
Heat and
pressure
Melted
intoMagma
Metamorphic
rock
Deposition,
burial,
lithification
Sedimentary
rock
Heat and
pressure
There are three main types of rocks:
igneous, sedimentary, and
metamorphic. Each of these types of
rocks are formed in different ways and
each type of rock can be changed into
each of the other types of rock.
Geologists call this process the Rock
Cycle. Essentially the rock cycle is the
process that makes and recycles rocks.
http://kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0025B-rock-cycle.php
2. How was fossil fuel formed?
Rock Cycle
Multiple choice:
Choose your answer from the following:
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Igneous
3. Crystallization of magma forms __________.
4. Burial and compaction form ____________.
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
5. Heat and pressure form _______________.
6. Deposition of sediment forms Sedimentary
___________.
Igneous
7. Melting and cooling form ______________.
Sedimentary
8. Weathering of rocks forms_______________.
9. How are rocks recycled?
Rocks are recycled when they are
broken by weathering and/or melted by
magma when they are buried deep
underground. Depending on the process
that happens next, a new rock is formed.
Rock Cycle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7YQ5vwaL98
Five factors of Soil Formation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTzslvAD1Es
10. How are rocks classified?
Rocks are classified on how they were
formed and what type of minerals is
present in them.
1. Igneous – melting and cooling.
2. Sedimentary- sedimentation, compaction,
cementation, lithification.
3. Metamorphic – heat and pressure
Websites
• http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/l
evin/0471697435/chap_tut/chaps/chapter0404.html
• http://room162a.edublogs.org/tag/rockcycle/