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Three Types
of rock
• Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
Igneous Rocks?
Sedimentary Rocks?
Metamorphic Rocks?
A: The Rock
Cycle!!!
The process of rocks changing from
one type of rock to another
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
5. Compaction &
Cementation
Igneous rock
Sediments worn away
gather here!
© Beadle, 2009
How to get Sedimentary Rocks:
Cementation
(eventually pieces get
stuck together and
becomes a rock)
Erosion
(pieces fall down to
bottom of cliff)
Deposition
(smaller pieces are spread out
across area)
Rivers can do a lot
of this on their own:
Deposition is taking
place when the river
meets the ocean
Now all that is left are salty rocks that form a dry lake bed
A: Underwater!
Deposition:
minerals from the Granite
spreading out as sand!
(This makes the soil of the valley)
Soil is basically all the small broken up pieces of rocks!
Broken down tons of times into smaller
and smaller sediments
Underneath all the sand,
sediment is being compacted
=Sedimentary
The Real Rock Cycle
Plate motion
Plate motion Cooler Crust
Hot Mantle
Continental plate collides with Continental Plate causing mountains to form!
= Metamorphic
Hot Magma
Continental collides with Oceanic:
6
7
5
2 plate motion
plate motion
3
3
4
1 Hot Mantle
Divergent Convergent
Cloud
Plate Tectonics Rock Cycle
Key: Notice where
metamorphic, igneous &
sedimentary rocks are
processed & formed.
Intrusive Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary Sedimentary
Melted rock
Intrusive Igneous
Assessment:
Identify where the terms/description
on the left should go in the rock cycle
on the right
• Heat,
Pressure
• Extrusive
(Volcanic
Eruptions)
• Deposition &
Cementation
• Melting
• Intrusive
(Cooling &
Crystallization)
• Weathering &
Erosion