The Rock Cycle

This rock is made from tiny pieces of other rocks that settled to the bottom of a valley millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock into fragments called sediments.

• Deposition
• Erosion
• Weathering
• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when minerals form from solutions or sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when pressure, temperature, or chemical processes change existing rock.

• Igneous Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Rock Cycle

The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• compaction and cementation
• melting and cooling

The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• melting and cooling
• compaction and cementation

A metamorphic rock can become ______.

• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• all of these

An igneous rock can become ______.

• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• igneous
• all of these

The name rock is given when it is broken down into smaller pieces.

• texture
• weathering
• sediment
• erosion

What two processes make sediment?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Weathering & Erosion