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Name: KEY Date:

Student Exploration: Rock Cycle


Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and
prompts in the orange boxes.

Vocabulary: deposition, erosion, extrusive igneous rock, intrusive igneous rock, lava, lithification, magma,
metamorphic rock, rock cycle, sediment, sedimentary rock, soil, weathering

Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)

1. What happens to hot lava after it erupts from a volcano? It cools and forms rocks

2. How does rock turn into soil? It weathers and erodes

3. The Mississippi River carries tons of tiny rock fragments called sediments into the Gulf of Mexico.
What do you think will happen to these sediments after a few million years?

They will build up and sink further into the Earth.

Gizmo Warm-up
Over millions of years, rocks are broken down and
transformed into other rocks. The Rock Cycle Gizmo
illustrates the different transformations that make up the rock
cycle. Before exploring the Gizmo, take a look at the image.

1. What types of rocks are shown?

Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic

2. Magma is molten (liquid) rock under Earth’s surface. Based on the image, how do you think magma
turns into extrusive igneous rock?

by flowing out of the volcano and cooling.

3. Click Extrusive igneous rock button to the right of the image. Were you correct? yes

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Activity: Get the Gizmo ready:
The rock cycle ● Click Start again.

Question: What is the rock cycle?

1. Observe: A cycle is a path with the same start and end. Create a rock cycle with the Gizmo.

A. Click Magma. How hot is magma? 1000 degrees Celsius

B. Click Crystallization (below ground). What Intrusive igneous rock


kind of rock is formed when magma cools
below the surface?

C. Click Exposure and weathering. What forms Soil


when rocks break down?

D. Click Erosion and deposition. In what ways Wind, rivers, and glaciers transport them to
are sediments transported? lakes or the ocean.

E. Click Lithification and compaction. Sedimentary Rocks


(Lithification is hardening into rock.) What kind
of rock is formed from sediments?

F. Click Increase temp. and pressure. What kind Metamorphic Rocks


of rock is formed?

G. Click Melt. What is formed when rocks melt Magma


deep underground?

2. Describe: Select the PATH tab. What are the steps in this rock cycle?

Magma → Intrusive Rock → Soil → Sediments → Sedimentary Rock →


Metamorphic Rock → Magma

3. On your own: On the SIMULATION tab, click Start again. In the spaces below, list three rock cycles.
You can start anywhere, but each cycle must begin and end at the same point.

Cycle 1: answers vary

Cycle 2:

Cycle 3:

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4. Diagram: The image below summarizes the different stations in the rock cycle. This has been printed
out for you to use. Please follow the directions for the printed rock cycle.

✏️ Draw an arrow to represent each possible transition from


one rock type to another. Then label each arrow with the
process that occurs, such as weathering, erosion,
lithification, melting, cooling, heat and pressure.

cooli

melti
cooli

Heat and
Heat and
weatheri
Heat and
cooling

weatheri

lithificat

erosion

5. Practice: List the steps that would cause each transformation below.

A. Intrusive igneous rock 🡪 sedimentary rock:

Weathering, erosion, lithification

B. Metamorphic rock 🡪 sediment:

weathering,

C. Sediment 🡪 sedimentary rock:

lithification

D. Sedimentary rock 🡪 sediment:

weathering

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