Rock Cycle

What is the process by which rock is broken into fragments called sediments?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when pressure and heat change existing rock.

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Rock Cycle

The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure

• melting and cooling and crystallizing

• compaction and cementation

• weathering and erosion

When weathering breaks rocks into pieces, what do we call those smaller pieces?

• texture
• weathering
• sediment
• erosion

_______ rock forms from magma/lava

• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

Heat and pressure create this type of rock.

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• sediments

Where do igneous rocks form?

• underwater

• deep underground

• in the air

• near volcanoes

Where do metamorphic rocks form?

• underwater

• near volcanoes

• deep underground

• in the air

Solid material that consists of one or more minerals or other substances.

• Minerals

• rocks

Rocks can never change

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2