Rock Cycle Vocabulary

Rock Cycle: A continuous set __ processes by which any type __ rock can change into any other type. It is a model that illustrates how the flow __ energy drives the cycling __ rock material in the Geosphere.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This rock is formed when magma turns to lava as it reaches Earth's surface

What geologic process changes pieces of rocks, minerals and other materials into sedimentary rocks?

• Compacting and Cementing

• Cooling

• Heat and Pressure

• Melting

What geologic process can change granite (igneous rock) into gneiss (metamorphic rock)?

• Compacting and cementing

• Cooling 

• Heat and pressure

• Melting

Which type of rock is heated and pressurised but does NOT melt?

• igneous

• hard rock

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

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Each rock type can follow only one pathway of the rock cycle.

• True

• False

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What do we call the material that comes from rocks that have been broken down into smaller pieces?

• Texture

• Weathering

• Sediment

• Erosion

Any rock can turn into any other kind of rock.

• True

• False

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This process changes rocks to magma.

• melting

• cooling and crystallizing

• weathering and erosion

• heat and pressure

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What is the process called when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by natural forces such as wind or water?

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Sedimentation

• Compaction

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