ROCKS

A NATURALLY FORMED SOLID MATERIAL THAT IS USUALLY MADE OF MINERALS.

CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED AS MINERALS. A MINERAL HAS ITS OWN COLOR, A ROCK MAY NOT.

TYPES OF ROCKS
There are three main types of rocks 1. IGNEOUS ROCKS- formed when molten
rocks cools. 2. SEDIMENTARY ROCKS- formed by cementing together of small grains of sediments. 3. METAMORPHIC ROCKS- rock change by the effect of heat and pressure.

Igneous Rocks
These are rocks formed by the cooling of molten rock (magma.) Magma cools and solidifies forming igneous rocks

volcano

magma

Sedimentary Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks are rocks formed when particles of sediment build up and are cemented together by the effect of pressure and minerals.
Fragments washed to the sea

Getting older

Rocks are broken up by the action of weather Sedimentary rocks

sea

Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic rocks are formed by the effect of heat and pressure on existing rocks. This can greatly affect the hardness, texture or layer patterns of the rocks.
Pressure from surface rocks
metamorphic rock forming here

Magma

heat

RECIPE FOR ROCKS

FOR IGNEOUS ROCKS - if you had tons and tons o many different minerals and a boiling volcano about to errupt, you could make a rock with bubbles in it. A rock called pumice. - PUMICE is made by fire and heat in a volcano and it is called an IGNEOUS ROCK.

FOR SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

If you had tons and tons of broken rock, boulders, cobble, and pebbles, lots of winds and rain to break them down into sand and a swift-running river to pile the sand in layers, and a million years to wait, you could make a layer and cake rock called sandstone. Made up of old rocks that break into tiny grains of sand and pile up in layers it is called a SEDIMENTARY ROCK.

FOR METAMORPHIC ROCKS

If you buried either a sedimentary or a igneous rock under tons and tons of heavy rocks and heated it with hot gasses from deed in the earth, you could make a rock called marble, or a slate, or a gneiss. Such rock are these are made from other rock by heat and pressure. They are called METAMORPHIC ROCK.

PREPARED BY:
MR. JAMES C. SAYSON THANK YOU!!!