Image Source:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/images/modules/msese/earthsysflr/EFCycleP2.gif
Summary:
The rock cycle is one of the natural cycles that happen around the world. The rock cycle creates new rocks from old materials from other rocks. Say you start with an igneous rock and you want it to go through the rock cycle to become an igneous rock again. Well to do this it would have to take years through weathering and erosion to turn it into sediments, which from there would take a while for those pieces to compact and cementation to turn it into a sedimentary rock which has different layers to it. Then from there heat and pressure turn it into a metamorphic rock. From there it would have to undergo melting to turning it into magma. Finally, from there it cools down turning it back into an igneous rock. But it doesn't end there! The rock cycle will keep going for years far past our time.
S&EP:
SP2: Developing and using models
This week I performed SP2: Developing and using models by using Gizmos to investigate the stages of the rock cycle and the way the rock cycle works over millions of years to reuse old rocks to make new ones. I also create a little chart that showed every process of the rock cycle through arrows and they each said every process the rock undergoes to get to the next stage.
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