Download Lesson 13: The Rock Cycle 9/20/13 Essential Questions:

Lesson 13: The Rock Cycle
9/20/13
Essential Questions:
1.
How do surfaces processes contribute to the rock cycle?
2.
How is the rock cycle related to plate tectonics?
Vocabulary:
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rock cycle
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intrusive rock
uplift
extrusive rock
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deposition
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How do surface
processes contribute
to the rock cycle?
What is the rock
cycle?
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the series of processes that continually change one rock type to
another
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sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic, or
sediment, magma, lava
earth materials change both form and location when moving
through the rock cycle
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Processes of the
Rock Cycle:
1.
Cooling and Crystallization
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extrusive rock-
an igneous rock that is formed when lava cools and crystallizes
on Earth's surface
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intrusive rock-
an igneous rock that is formed when magma cools and crystallizes
inside Earth
2. Uplift:
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uplift-
the process that moves large amounts of rock up to Earth's
surface and to higher elevations
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driven by Earth's tectonic activity and often is
associated with mountain building
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Processes of the
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Rock Cycle:
5. Compaction and
Cementation
the weight of overlying layers of sediment pushes the grains of the
bottom layers closer together--> compaction
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sedimentary rocks have tiny spaces called pores between grains
which can contain water and dissolved material
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when the dissolved materials and water crystalize it cements the
rock together
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Processes of the
Rock Cycle:
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