The rock cycle is when the rocks in the earth change shape and composition through a process that take many years and can be affect by different aspects. Magma comes out of the volcano to be lava, then this one gets cold and is how igneous rock is formed, we can have two types, intrusive that has big crystals and extrusive that have small crystals. Sedimentary rocks are formed by compaction and sedimentation, in a simple way to say the rocks glue together, we find clastic that is formed by cold lava, bioclastic that is formed by death animals or plants, crystalline that is form from liquid. Metamorphic rock are formed by heat and pressure. it has two types foliated that have lines or you can see the separation in levels and nonfoliated that is plain.
Vocabulary sedimentation- the rock glues together and get hard
Magma- rock that melted down and became liquid inside the volcano
lava- melted rock when it's outside the volcano
Sedimentary rock - rock that forms from sediment that gets glue together
Metamorphic rock - rock that is formed by heat and pressure.
Igneous rock - rock that forms when the lave cools down and gets hard.
Solidification - the rock becomes hard.
Weathering - rain, wind, ice that breaks the rock into piece.
Erosion - when the sediments are take to other places.
Sediment - small rocks broke in to small pieces.
Compaction - when the rocks became compact.
Rock types Igneous Rock
Intrusive- Big crystals
Extrusive- Small crystals sedimentary Clastic- just rock pieces
Clastic- just rock pieces
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