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Rock Cycle Questions and Short Story Determine which type of rock was created by the following event: 1. Magma rose from the mantle and slowly cooled in a crack deep below the earth’s surface. 2. An earthquake shook a mountain causing an avalanche. The rocks fell down the side of a mountain and landed in a shallow ocean where they were buried for millions of years. 3. A river carried little sand grains and mud to the ocean where they were buried for millions of years. 4. A volcano erupted molten material across a rift valley. 5. Two tectonic plates converged with great pressure and created folded mountains out of rock that used to be igneous and sedimentary. 6. Sedimentary rocks from the oceanic crust are subducted below the continental crust. The rocks of the oceanic crust melt in the subduction zone and eventually harden slowly below the surface of the earth. 7. Brand new rocks are erupted from the mid oceanic ridge. 8. Coal lies buried deep below the continental crust and is squeezed by great pressure from the rocks above and turns into diamond. 9. Water and wind weather and erode a mountain into little tiny pieces which are carried by rivers to a huge ocean. The pieces fall to the bottom of the ocean and are buried for millions of years. The pieces get cemented together by minerals dissolved in the seawater. 10. An igneous rock from a composite volcano is subducted under an oceanic plate and receives a lot of pressure and heat. The crystals in the rock become squeezed and oriented into bands. It looks gneiss. Write a 5 paragraph short story that explains a rock’s journey through the rock cycle. Write the story as if you where the rock. Explain what is happening to you. Explain what you see. Paragraph 1: Paragraph 2: Paragraph 3: Paragraph 4: Paragraph 5: Introduction Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Conclusion