THE ROCK CYCLE, Schemes and Mind Maps of Business

Download THE ROCK CYCLE and more Schemes and Mind Maps Business in PDF only on Docsity! THE ROCK CYCLE Activity Booklet Name: ______________ Igneous Rocks (fire/melting and cooling) Granite ____ (black, gray, white or pink crystals) Obsidian___ (no crystals, looks like glass) Pumice____ (lightweight, has tiny holes, floats on water) Draw what you think the jar will look like after your teacher shakes it and all the sediment-sand, pebbles and peat settle. Label it. CRAYON ROCK SIMULATION Type of Rock What did we do? (Write or Draw) What does it look like? (Draw) Sedimentary Igneous Metamorphic ROCK CYCLE CHALLENGE (Fill in the numbers and colored ovals) 1.________ 6.__ 5.______ 7.____ 8.______ 3.___ 2.____ 10.___ 4. ____ 9.______ Processes: Heat & Pressure, Melt, Pressure, Weathering and Erosions, Cool/Crystallize, Compaction Intermediate materials: Sediment, Magma IGNEOUS ROCKS METAMORPHIC ROCKS SEDIMENTS MAGMA ava LAVA SEDIMENTARY ROCKS As a frothy, igneous rock (pumice), my life began in a volcano where things were pretty hot! After I cooled off and hardened, I thought that the heat wave was over, but after years of… (What process belongs here? How does an igneous rock become metamorphic?) Now look at me! I’m not even an igneous rock anymore! I’m metamorphic! Here I was, a beautiful igneous rock (obsidian), minding my own business on the side of a mountain. I’ve been here for a long time, so the rain and wind has really started wear me down. I don’t feel like myself anymore. I think weathering has turned me into… (What happens after a rock is weathered by wind and water? What can it become?)