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The rock cycle document describes the three main types of rock and how they are formed. Igneous rocks form from cooling magma either underground as plutonic rock or on the surface as volcanic rock. Sedimentary rock forms over time as layers of eroded sediment are compressed. Metamorphic rock is formed deep underground through heat and pressure changing other rock types.

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Rockcycle PDF

The rock cycle document describes the three main types of rock and how they are formed. Igneous rocks form from cooling magma either underground as plutonic rock or on the surface as volcanic rock. Sedimentary rock forms over time as layers of eroded sediment are compressed. Metamorphic rock is formed deep underground through heat and pressure changing other rock types.

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THE ROCK CYCLE

IGNEOUS ROCK SEDIMENTARY ROCK METAMORPHIC ROCK

Deep in the earth's crust there Wind and water cause erosion, Just as cookie dough changes
are places where the rock has breaking off pieces of rock and as it is baked, rock changes as
melted into magma which is a carrying them from one place it is heated, squeezed or both.
mixture of crystals and liquid to another. Gradually these Rocks deep within the earth
rock. Sometimes the magma pieces along with sand, are put through intense heat
erupts out of the earth through pebbles, shells and plant and pressure. In time, these
a volcano and then it is called matter gather into layers forces change sedimentary or
lava. When the lava cools and called sediment. Over a long igneous rock into another type
hardens on the earth's surface, period of time the sediment of rock called metamorphic rock.
it is called volcanic igneous hardens into rock. That is how
rock. If the magma cools and sedimentary rock is formed.
hardens under the ground, it is Most of the rock on the earth's
called plutonic igneous rock. surface is sedimentary.

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