April 16, 2024 Classwork

ROCK CYCLE, WEATHERING, EROSION,
DEPOSITION, & HUMAN IMPACT

SC.7.E.6.2 IDENTIFY THE PATTERNS WITHIN
THE ROCK CYCLE AND RELATE THEM TO
SURFACE EVENTS (WEATHERING AND
EROSION) AND SUBSURFACE EVENTS (PLATE
TECTONICS AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING).

Essential Question: How does weathering, erosion
and deposition shape the Earth and contribute to
the rock cycle?

Please click on the link below, use your dictionary
or the lesson glossary to look for the meaning of

words as you go through the lesson.

Multilingual Glossaries for Middle

School Science

Lesson Glossary - Key Vocabulary Terms

English

Spanish

Haitian Creole

Portuguese

Air/Water Quality

Calidad del aire / agua

Kalite Air / Dlo

Qualidade do Ar / Água

Coastlines

Costas

Litoral yo

Litoral

Deforestation

Deforestación

Deforestasyon

Desmatamento

Deposition

deposición

depo

deposição

Desertification

Desertificación

Dezètifikasyon

Desertificação

Dunes

Dunas

Dunes

Dunas

Erosion

erosión

ewozyon

erosão

Glacier

glaciar

glasye - gwo blòk glas

geleira

Igneous

ígneo

inye

ígneo

Magma

magma

magma

magma

Metamorphic

metamórfico

metamòfik

metamórfico

Lesson Glossary - Key Vocabulary Terms

English

Spanish

Haitian Creole

Portuguese

Mountain

montaña

mòn

montanha

Mountain

montaña

mòn

montanha

Rivers

Ríos

Rivyè

Rivers

Rivers

Ríos

Rivyè

Rivers

Rock cycle

ciclo de las rocas

sik chanjman ki fèt nan wòch

ciclo das rochas

Sediment

sedimento

sediman – gravye

sedimento

Sedimentary

sedimentaria

sedimantè

sedimentar

Urbanization

Urbanización

Urbanizasyon

Urbanização

Water Flow

Flujo de agua

Flow Dlo

Fluxo de água

Weathering

desgaste

degradasyon

intemperismo

Multiple Choice

Limestone caves can develop when limestone rock is weathered. The weathering of the rock leaves an empty space that forms the cave.

Which of the following best explains how the limestone weathered?

• 1. Animals burrowed through the limestone.

• Wind blowing across the surface eroded the limestone.

• Water flowing through the rock dissolved the limestone.

• Moss and plants grew on the rock and broke down the limestone.

I DO
GUIDED
NOTES

ROCK CYCLE:

The gradual series of events that causes
rock to change into different forms:
•Igneous

•Sedimentary

•Metamorphic

ROCK
CYCLE
DIAGRAM

IGNEOUS ROCK:

Any type of rock can be melted in the Earth’s crust.

When lava erupts from a volcano, it cools to form NEW
igneous rock.

CAUSE: Intense Heat

METAMORPHIC ROCK:

•When rock in the crust gets
pushed under another tectonic plate,
metamorphic rock can form.
CAUSE: INTENSE heat and pressure

SEDIMENTARY ROCK

Rock that forms from other eroded
rock. Sediment are pieces of rock,
sand, etc. that have been carried and
deposited in the same location.

Over many years, the pile of sediment
presses down on the layers below it
causing compaction.

Minerals fill any empty spaces and
creates solid rock by cementation.

Categorize

Options (14)

Formed by intense heat.

Can be found by volcanoes.

Often has a glassy texture.

Formed by the accumulation of sediments.

May have visible layers or bedding.

Can be found in riverbeds, lakes, and oceans.

Formed by intense heat and pressure.

Has crystals due to all the heat.

Organize these options into the right categories

Igneous Rock

Sedimentary Rock

Metamorphic Rock

WED (WEATHERING, EROSION, DEPOSITION)

Weathering: Wind, ice, gravity and water
break rock apart, creating sediment.

Erosion: When the sediment is moved to
another place by wind, ice, gravity,
water.

Deposition: When the sediment carried
by wind, ice, gravity, water is deposited
(laid down) in another location.

HUMAN IMPACT

• Erosion: Trees and plants have roots that cling to the soil. Without these plants, the soil can be carried away by water or wind.

• Urbanization: We cut down trees and create parking lots/malls.

• Deforestation: We cut down trees our needs or to make space.

HUMAN IMPACT

• Air/Water Quality: Pollution creates acid rain, can eat away at rock.

• Water Flow: We create dams that cut off water to areas that previously
  had water.

• Desertification: By cutting off water supplies, we can create deserts.

Match

Match the following

Erosion

Urbanization

Deforestation

Air/Water Quality

Desertification

• Erosion

• Urbanization

• Deforestation

• Air/Water Quality

• Desertification

LANDFORMS

Coastlines: Areas where the ocean reaches the land. (beach)

Dunes: Large piles of sand that were deposited by wind.

Rivers: Streams of water that lead to the ocean that are moved by gravity.

LANDFORMS

Mountains: Large rock formations that are caused by convergent
boundaries.

Glaciers: Huge chunks of ice that crush any rock below them.

Deltas: Triangle shaped areas of deposition where a river & ocean meet.

Lakes: A bowl-shaped basin that is filled with groundwater.

Categorize

Options (4)

Organize these options into the right categories

Coastline

Dunes

Rivers

Mountains

Categorize

Options (3)

Organize these options into the right categories

Glaciers

Deltas

Lakes

WE DO
COLLABORATIVE
ACTIVITY

Multiple Choice

A river flowing.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Multiple Choice

Rain dissolving rock.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Multiple Choice

Glacier crushing rock.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Multiple Choice

A mudslide.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Multiple Choice

A sinkhole.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Multiple Choice

A sandstorm.

• Weathering

• Erosion

Labelling

Label the picture.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

cooling

sediment

compaction & cementation

magma

heat and pressure

intense heat

erosion

Open Ended

Plants can usually be found on the beach near the sand.

Predict the outcome if these plants were killed.

Open Ended

When humans urbanize an area, what other impact will they end up having as well?

*Look back at your notes if you need the definition for urbanization. *

Open Ended

Weathering, erosion, and deposition shape the Earth and contributes to the rock cycle by ____________.

Draw

Draw an image of how you felt about this lesson.

Open Ended

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