Download Earth Rocks! - Mona Shores Public Schools

Let’s
“Rock”
Original presentation created by Leslie
Williams, a teacher with the Graves County
School District (Mayfield, Kentucky).
Modified by Derek Osborne, Lincoln Park
Elementary School, for Mona Shores Public
Schools students.
Layers of the Earth
• Skin of the peach is
the crust
• Meat of the peach is
the mantle
• Pit of the peach is the
core
Layers of the EARTH
CRUST
5 to 25 miles thick
and up to 1,600 F
MANTLE
1,800 miles thick
and up to 8,000 F
INNER CORE
800 miles thick
and up to 13,000 F
OUTER CORE
1,400 miles thick
and up to 11,000 F
TYPES OF ROCKS
• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
IGNEOUS ROCKS
• Formed from molten
material including
volcanic lava, ash, or
bombs as well as
magma below Earth’s
surface
TYPES OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
GRANITE
BASALT
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
• Made of layers that
have been pressed or
cemented together
• Pebbles, sand, silt, or
clay are sediments
• Shells and bones can
also be sediments
TYPES OF SEDIMENTARY
ROCKS
LIMESTONE
SHALE
COAL
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
• Rocks that are
changed by intense
heat and pressure
while inside Earth’s
surface
• Igneous, sedimentary,
and even metamorphic
rocks can be changed
into different
metamorphic rocks
TYPES OF METAMORPHIC
ROCKS
SLATE
MARBLE
ROCK CYCLE
• The rock cycle is
a never-ending
process of rocks
forming,
weathering, and
changing into
other rocks
ROCK CYCLE
So what do you know…
What are the four
layers of the earth?
So what do you know…
Name three types of
rocks.
So what do you know…
Name two types of
Igneous Rocks
So what do you know…
Name three types of
Sedimentary Rocks
So what do you know…
Name two types of
Metamorphic Rocks