Exploring The Rock Cycle with Crayons

The video tutorial explains the rock cycle, starting with solid materials like rocks and minerals. It describes how weathering and erosion break down rocks into smaller materials, which gather to form sedimentary rocks. These rocks, characterized by chunks of other rocks, can be fragile. Over time, sedimentary rocks are subjected to heat and pressure, transforming into metamorphic rocks. Eventually, these metamorphic rocks melt with magma and rise to the Earth's surface, cooling to form igneous rocks.

What process is represented by the knife in the video?

• Cementation

• Compaction

• Weathering and erosion

• Melting

What happens to sediments from different rocks?

• They melt together

• They become cemented and compacted

• They turn into magma

• They evaporate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which type of rock is formed from compacted and cemented sediments?

• Igneous rock

• Volcanic rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock

What causes sedimentary rocks to transform into metamorphic rocks?

• Erosion

• Cooling

• Weathering

• Heat and pressure

What type of rock is formed when magma cools?

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Igneous rock

• Fossil rock