Transcript The Rock Cycle - Beth's Rock Collection

rocks
Which rock will
it stay?
Can you
Figure it Out?
From One Rock to another
On a RECYCLING
Route
But never in a hurry
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
metamorphic
Sedimentary
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
Igneous means “born of
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
Igneous means “born of
Bedrock
Mag-ma!
But then the
EARTH’S elements
Won’t leave
The poor rock alone!
•Ice
•wind
•Water
ice
wind
water
They break up the stone
Compression of sediments
is One way
Sedimentary Rock
can be formed
That DARNED rock’s
changed again!
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
metamorphic
?
Sedimentary
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
metamorphic
kinda
melted
Sedimentary
squished
hOT!
Bands (can) form
Metamorphic
means
“changed”
The Rock Cycle
Igneous
metamorphic
Sedimentary
The Rock Cycle
When Men first
Discovered this
It came as
A Shock !
James Hutton
1726-1797)
It was thought
Only ONE identity
To each kind of rock
Like a sort of
registration
baby!
Given
At birth
Once granite,
ALWAYS granite.
(No sir!)
always changing…
The Rock Cycle
igneous
metamorphic
Sedimentary
Youngest
Rocks
Here !
Volcano
roots down
there!
Asteroid
Impact?
Oldest Rocks
Here !
The Rock
Cycle
The end !
The end !
Beth Cook-Vernon
Productions
The following are
Spare pictures…
Into the
Bedrock
intrusive
(crystals)
On top (Exit)
extrusive
(no crystals)
The Rock Cycle
The Rock Cycle
The Rock Cycle