Earth Patterns, Cycles, And Change

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Heat water and pressure causes this to happen to rocks. It also creates soil.

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weathering

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Water wind ice, water, storms, earthquakes cause this to happen.

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erosion

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Molten rock that sometimes forms beneath the surface of the Earth

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magma

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Molten Rock that comes from the inside of a valcano and is pushed to the surface from the beneath the ground.

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lava

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When the magma gets hard inside the crust, it turns into this

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granite

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A Metamorphic rock that has a streaky look because of alternating layers of minerals.

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gneiss

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transformed shale. It splits into smooth slabs

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slate

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This is marble that is transformed.

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limestone

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sedimentary rocks, ofter have fossils in them

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shale

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Sedimentary rock, stone that is made when sand grains cement together. Sometimes it is deposited in layers of different colored sand.

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sandstone

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decaying plants create this.

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coal

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Eventually most of the broken bits of the rock end up in the streams & rivers that flow down from the mountains.
These little bits of rock & sand are called

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sediment

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Sedimentary rocks are usually formed in layers called

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strata (*layers),

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is composed of the same substance throughout and is sorted into 8 groups

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mineral