ROCK CYCLE

What is the process by which rock is broken into fragments called sediments?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when pressure and heat change existing rock.

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Rock Cycle

The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure

• melting and cooling and crystallizing

• compaction and cementation

• weathering and erosion

An igneous rock can become ______.

• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• igneous
• all of these

When weathering breaks rocks into pieces, what do we call those smaller pieces?

• texture
• weathering
• sediment
• erosion

_______ rock forms from magma/lava

• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.

• weathering

• Uplift

• Deposition

• Erosion

This process changes rocks to magma.

• melting

• cooling and crystallizing

• weathering and erosion

• heat and pressure

This process takes sediments and changes them to sedimentary rock.

• weathering and erosion

• compacting and cementing

• heat and pressure

• melting

Heat and pressure create this type of rock.

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• sediments