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the Rock cycle
CGC1P Geography of Canada
Please use your handout, “The Rock Cycle” to answer the following questions. Remember, there
are two sides to the handout! (The processes that change one type of rock to another are all listed in the
rock cycle diagram on the back.)
1. What is magma?
2. What process does it under go after it leaves a volcano to become igneous rock?
3. Igneous rock is the oldest rock on Earth! What does “igneous” mean?
4. What region of Canada do you find a great deal of igneous rock?
5. Why is the Canadian Shield referred to as “Canada’s storehouse of minerals”?
6. What process does igneous rock undergo over millions of years to become sedimentary rock?
7. Explain why sedimentary rock is formed in layers.
8. Why are fossils found in some sedimentary rock?
9. What process does sedimentary rock undergo to become metamorphic rock?
10. What are ‘metamorphic’ rocks?
11. What type of rock forms when limestone is heated?
12. Name three items that this new rock is used for in our homes.