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The Rock Cycle

W Richards

Worthing High School

 Sedimentary rocks
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Sandstone Limestone

Conglomerate
Sedimentary rocks
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How sedimentary
rocks are formed:

1) Weathering

2) Transportation

3) Deposition

4) Burial
Metamorphic rocks
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Quartzite

Slate

Marble
 Metamorphic rocks
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Metamorphic rocks are formed by the combined effect of

heat and pressure on other rocks:

Pressure from rocks above

and heat from magma nearby

 Igneous rocks
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Obsidian
Granite

Pumice
Igneous rocks
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Igneous rocks
are formed
when lava or
magma cools
down and
solidifies

If the lava or magma cools

QUICKLY it has SMALL crystals

If the lava or magma cools

SLOWLY it has BIG crystals
 Summary
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Sedimentary, igneous How they were Appearance

or metamorphic? formed
Small pieces of Usually soft, can
sediment were stuck contain fossils, easily
together by salt and eroded
(e.g. sandstone, pressure from rocks
limestone, chalk) above
Liquid rock (magma or Contain crystals, very
lava) cooled down and hard, never contain
turned back into a fossils
(e.g. basalt, granite) solid

Other rocks were Sometimes have tiny

acted on by heat and crystals, no fossils,
pressure over a long always hard and
(e.g. marble, slate) time sometimes arranged
in layers
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 Rocks revision quiz
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1. What are the 3 types of rock?

2. What type of rock are the following:
Sandstone, limestone, granite, basalt, slate
3. What type of rock would a mountain probably be made out of?
4. What are the two conditions needed for a metamorphic rock to form?
5. Which metamorphic rock is formed from limestone?
6. Why wouldnt you find any fossils in igneous or metamorphic rocks?
7. You find a rock containing crystals. What type of rock would it most
probably be?
8. What is molten rock that is inside the Earth called?
9. What is molten rock that is outside the Earth (i.e. erupted) called?
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10. Name one example of physical weathering.

11. Name one example of biological weathering.
12. Acid rain is an example of chemical weathering. What poisonous gas
(given off by car exhausts and power stations) causes acid rain?
13. Granite is an igneous rock and contains large crystals. Did it cool down
slowly or quickly?
14. In the rock cycle what causes igneous rock to become sedimentary
rock?
15. In the rock cycle again what causes the sedimentary rock to become
metamorphic rock?
16. Gravestones are usually made out of marble or granite instead of
limestone or sandstone. Why?
17. A piece of rock contains layers. What type of rock would it probably
be?