What Is the Rock Cycle?

What Is the Rock Cycle? — page 1 — A WHAT ARE Rocks Rocks are the solid materials that make up most of A Earth's surface The surface is made of different types of rock We see rocks around us every day Rocks are in the walls of buildings in the ground we walk on and in the pebbles and cliffs at the beach There are rocks under the sea and in the soil Rocks make the landscapes we see around us ESB R H E The mighty rates Grand is a European Canyon made up of layers of different rock Hyperating a

What Is the Rock Cycle? — page 2 — Granite is a hard rock made 4 up of different colored minerals A t There is a huge variety of different rocks in the world Rocks can be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a building Some rocks are hard but some are soft and crumbly Rocks come in different colors too from Minerals are the pink white and silver to gray solid substances and black Rocks are made that make up rocks from one or many

What Is the Rock Cycle? — page 3 — INSIDE EARTH A Most minerals form deep inside Earth Above the core the center part of Earth is a thick layer of extremely hot rock called the mantle Earth s hard rocky outer layer is called the crust When rock deep in Earth's crust or the mantle melts we call it magma As magma flows upward it cools As it cools different materials inside it harden and become tiny solid minerals that can form rocks Crust Mantle These are LA the different layers A inside Earth Outer Core Inner core

What Is the Rock Cycle? — page 4 — A cave explorer IN catches water that drips down from the rock above him Some minerals form when water gets under Earth's surface Rain and seawater seep underground through cracks in the crust Some of this water heats up if it reaches the hot mantle rock Minerals in the very hot water mix with minerals from the mantle rock When the water cools again new minerals form IHINKABOUTT When rocks heat up they change How do we use heat to change things How does heat change ice cream on a summer's

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