Use your Rock Transformations Key Concepts and the Rock Cycle Choose Your Own Adventure on Google Classroom to complete the activities on this worksheet. You may work with a partner if you like.
Sediments are formed by the process of which happens.
Sedimentary and igneous rocks can become rocks when subducted to a place where there is heat and pressure.
Metamorphic rocks can reach the surface of the earth at boundaries when happens.
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the process of which happens
The energy that forms igneous and metamorphic rocks originates mainly in the and the energy to form sediments comes mainly from the .
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.
Now, go to the link to the Rock Cycle Choose your own Adventure. Start as any rock and follow through the steps to become all three different kinds of rocks.
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.
When the rock is subducted near the mantle it will undergo and then become a .
This rock, if it is subducted to the mantle, will then
Magma can exit a volcano as lava and become an or it can cool underground and become an
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