1. Rock cycle
LO: to label and describe the rock cycle
To explain how the Earth was formed using plate tectomics
Look at these chocolate bars, Do not touch them or you will be unable to eat them later!!!
Which of these bars are similar to
Sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rock?
Write a few sentences in your book explaining your answer

2. The Chocolate Rock Cycle

3. Questions Which process in the chocolate rock cycle showed erosion?
Which process in the chocolate rock cycle showed sedimentation and compaction?
Which process in the chocolate rock cycle showed metamorphic rock?
Which process in the chocolate rock cycle showed melting and magma?

4. Rock cycle- use this diagram to help cut and stick exercise
Weathering breaks down rocks.
Extrusive igneous rocks basalt
volcano
Rocks rise
to the surface by
uplift and erosion.
transportation
and deposition
sea
Magma
rises to
the surface
where it
cools rapidly.
sedimentary rocks
mudstone
Intrusive igneous rocks
granite
high pressure
and temperature
slow solidification
metamorphic rocks slate and marble
magma
melt

5. A story of Rock and Roll
Write the story of the journey of a piece of magma as it travels from deep inside a volcano surface and becomes cooling lava, metamorphic rock, erodes and forms sedimentary rock.

6. TRUE OR FALSE Igneous rocks can contain fossils
Sedimentary rocks are formed by heat and pressure
Granite is a metamorphic rock
The constant changing of rocks from one type to another is called the rock cycle
Fossils provide us with information about Evolution
Rocks being broken down by the wind and rain is weathering
Molten rock is called lava when it is underground and magma when it is on the Earth’s surface
Igneous rocks contain crystals
Limestone is a metamorphic rock
Marble is affected by acid rain

7. Small crystals of salol

8. Medium sized crystals of salol

9. Large crystals of salol