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Rock Cycle 2020 Slideshow

The document summarizes the rock cycle, describing the three main types of rock - sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous - and how they can transform into one another when exposed to sufficient heat, pressure, and other conditions either at the surface or within the Earth's crust over long periods of time. Sedimentary rocks form from compressed sediments, metamorphic rocks form from changes to other rock types deep underground, and igneous rocks form from cooling magma either underground or above ground as lava.

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Rock Cycle 2020 Slideshow

The document summarizes the rock cycle, describing the three main types of rock - sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous - and how they can transform into one another when exposed to sufficient heat, pressure, and other conditions either at the surface or within the Earth's crust over long periods of time. Sedimentary rocks form from compressed sediments, metamorphic rocks form from changes to other rock types deep underground, and igneous rocks form from cooling magma either underground or above ground as lava.

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The Rock

Cycle
The Earth is made up of rock!
There are 3 types of rock,
classified by how they are formed:

•Sedimentary
•Metamorphic
•Igneous
Each of these three types of rock
can turn into any of the other types,
if exposed to the right conditions.
That’s why it’s called
The Rock Cycle!
The formation of the three rock types, through
Rock Cycle processes, happens in the earth’s crust.
Sedimentary
• Sedimentary rocks form from eroded
pieces of minerals, rocks, and fossils.
• These particles, or sediments, build up
in layers through deposition.
• Sedimentary rocks form near the
surface, by time and pressure.
Metamorphic
• Metamorphic rocks form when other
types of rocks change into new ones.
• They form deep underground.
• Metamorphic rocks require a lot of
time, heat and pressure to form.
Igneous
• Igneous rocks are made from molten
rock (magma) from deep underground.
• Magma that cools underground forms
intrusive rocks; when it cools on the
surface (as lava), extrusive rocks form.
• Igneous rocks form in intense heat.
Rocks are made up of matter—
like pretty much everything in the universe!
Matter is anything that has mass
and takes up space.

The three states of matter are:


solid, liquid, & gas.
Matter can change
both physically and chemically.
Physical change – a reversible change, where the
appearance is altered, but composition stays the same.
Chemical change – an irreversible change that alters
the chemical makeup of a substance.

Energy is involved in any change in matter!

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