The Rock Cycle and Layers of the Earth

The age of rocks and geologic features compared to other things.

• Relative Age

• Absolute Age

• Superposition

• Age Dating

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A model showing the processes that create and change rock.

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Rock Cycle

• Nitrogen Cycle

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Mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter, or other material

• Brick

• Soda Pop Bottle

• Steel

• Rock

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rock can be changed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock.

• Large

• Sedimentary

• Hard

• Soft

__________ rock can be broken into fragments that may later form sedimentary rock.

• Igneous

• Hard

• Soft

• Small

Magma trapped below the surface forms large – grained ______________ rock when it cools.

• Extrusive

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Intrusive

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_____________ and ______________ result from one layer of rock on top of another layer.

• Tall and short

• Heat and pressure

• Big and small

• Sand and gravel

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Sometimes temperature and pressure are great enough to melt rock, forming ______________.

• magma

• lava

• water

• sandstone

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_____________ texture – mineral grains flatten and line up in parallel layers or bands.

• Sandstone

• Limestone

• Granite

• Foliated

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Sometimes ____________ flattens mineral grains in rocks without melting them.

• lava

• cold

• pressure

• granite