Processes of Change - Rock Cycle

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Hazards of Effusive Eruptions

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(b) Hazards of Explosive Eruptions

• Ash

• Lahars

• Lava Flows

• Pyroclastic Flows

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What is an Earthquake?

• movement of rock

• Movement of a fault

• A tsunami

• An event that produces seismic waves

There are 3 kinds of weathering. Each type has many unique ways to weather rock.

Groups:

(a) Mechanical

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(b) Biological

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(c) Chemical

• Plants

• Acid

• Salt

• Ice

• Water

• Wind

• Hot Water (like Yellowstone)

• Animals

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Sand dunes, river deltas, and beaches are all created by this sedimentary process.

• What is deposition

• What is weathering

• What is lithification

• What is erosion

The paragraph below is an example of which sedimentary process?

A single grain of sand can be carried by a stream for miles and miles before ever landing in a sand bar.

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Lithification

• Erosion

Sudden changes to Earth can include...

• Godzilla

• Volcanoes

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

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A volcano is erupting producing lava flows that weaken the rock they flow over and expose it to heat. Which sedimentary and metamorphic processes are at work here.

• Weathering

• Melting

• Contact Metamorphism

• Fractional Crystallization

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The Earth changes gradually in many ways. Some are global processes and some are smaller scale processes. Choose 2 processes that are gradual 1 global process and 1 small scale process.

• Pyroclastic Flows

• Plate Tectonics

• Tornadoes

• Weathering

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Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Extrusive Igneous Rock

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(b) Regional Metamorphism

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(c) Intrusive Igneous Rock

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(d) Contact Metamorphism

• Heat with little to no pressure

• Small Scale

• Very small crystals you cannot see

• Basalt

• Lots of folds

• Burnt Rock

• Granite

• Rock forms and cools inside the Earth from magma

• Large Scale

• Rock forms and cools out side of the volcano from lava

• Larger crystals you can see

• Heat and Pressure work together

Which processes are sedimentary processes. (Choose all correct answers)

• Uplifted to the Surface

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Lithification