Rock Cycle

Mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter, or other material

• Brick

• Soda Pop Bottle

• Steel

• Rock

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A model showing the processes that create and change rock.

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Rock Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

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_________ rock can be changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock.

• Large

• Sedimentary

• Hard

• Soft

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__________ rock can be broken into fragments that may later form sedimentary rock.

• Igneous

• Hard

• Soft

• Small

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______ rock can melt and cool to form igneous rock.

• Soft

• Hard

• Metamorphic

• Large

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Magma that reaches the surface flows from a volcano as ____________

• Magma

• Water

• Ice

• Lava

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Magma trapped below the surface forms large – grained ______________ rock when it cools.

• Extrusive

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Intrusive

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Magma cooling at or near Earth’s surface forms small-grained __________ igneous rock.

• Extrusive

• Intrusive

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Igneous rocks are classified in 2 ways.

• Heavy and Light

• Hot and Cold

• Sedimentary and Metamorphic

• Extrusive and Intrusive

Volcanic glass rock (obsidian) __________ so quickly that few crystals form.

• break

• melt

• cool

• flow

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