practicing with vocabulary about the rock cycle
Use your Rock Cycle Vocabulary and Diagram and the Rock Cycle Choose Your Own Adventure to complete the activities on this worksheet. You may work with a partner if you like.
Rock identification
Go to the three stations in the classroom and observe the rocks at each station. Write down your observations in the table below. Use the magnifier under the light to see up close.
Start as an intrusive igneous rock. Then click on UPLIFT. What happens next?
After you reach the surface, then you become
Sediments will then undergo
Now you are a
A sedimentary rock can now be ____________ to get under the Earth's surface near the mantle but not into the mantle.
This rock, if it is subducted to the mantle, will then
Before an igneous rock forms ...
Since metamorphic rocks are formed under the Earth’s surface ...
When sediments build up under the water
If magma cools under the surface
After magma exits a volcano
Unless a rock is on the surface
Whenever a rock is subducted