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Natural elements and compounds are minerals.
Rocks are mixtures of minerals.
Rocks make the Earth
Elements combine to make compounds.
SedimentaryRocks
MetamorphicRocks
IgneousRocks
The Earth is made of The Earth is made of 3 kinds of rock that 3 kinds of rock that
are recycled in theare recycled in the RRoocck k CCyyccllee
Igneous RocksIgneous Rocks
Sedimentary RocksSedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic RocksMetamorphic Rocks
Enough about rocks,
on to the cycle …
James Hutton
Developed the Rock Cycle explaining that rocks don’t stay the same forever; natural physical processes cause them to change from one type to another.
weathering
melting
pres
sure
, hea
t
Sedimentary Metamorphic
Igneous
The Rock Cycle.Rocks are neither created nor destroyed, they just
change from one type to another.
The Rock Cycle does not go in
just one direction.
Any given rock can go through any part of the
cycle any number of
times.
http://www.science.ubc.ca/~geol202/rock_cycle/rockcycle.html March 2000
The Earth can be thought of as a giant recycling machine