Science - Rocks

Rocks are classified by the minerals that compose it, how it looks, and how it was formed.

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Rocks are not destroyed, but transformed throughout the work cycle.

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Choose the correct answer

• Igneous

• Forms when sediments get compacted (squished together) usually at the bottom of a water source.________ are small pieces that weathered from a big rock.

• Metamorphic

• _______ is constantly chaging and new land is constantly being formed.

• Earth surface

• _____ is the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity move pieces of rock and soil.

• Sedimentary

• Cooled down magna. Extrasive: Cools outside. Intrasive cools inside

• Erosion

• Form from any type of rocks under extreme heat and pressure.

Rocks get broken down by weathering, moved through erosion, and deposited or dropped, somewhere else through deposition.

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Match the following

• Weathering

• _______ is the dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice or gravity.

• Deposition

• _____is the process by the water, ice, wind or gravity move pieces of rock and soil.

• Erosion

• _______is the process where rock is dissolved, worn away, or broken down into small pieces.

Weathering can shape rocks into unusual formations.

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Water, wind, ice and plant roots are all causes of weathering.

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• false

Weathering, erosion, and deposition are constantly changing our landscape.

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What is weathering?

The movement of sediment from one place to another is the process of __________.