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WORKSHEET #1
Earth’s Processes
Directions: Identify the term that is described in each statement. Write your answer on the space before the
item.
1. The breaking off rock on its surface due to repeated changes in temperature.
2. It occurs at mantle plumes which are small rising columns of hot plastic mantle rock.
3. It occurs when solid rock melts into magma through the addition of water or other volatiles,
such as carbon dioxide, causing rocks to melt at lower temperatures.
4. A crystallized magma beneath the Earth’s crust.
5. The process wherein hydrothermal fluids are involved in the change of chemical composition
of rock.

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces in the table to describe how different factors can cause mechanical
weathering.
Factor How does it cause mechanical weathering?

Temperature

Frost action

Abrasion

Action of
living things

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces in the table to describe how different factors can cause chemical weathering.
Factor How does it cause mechanical weathering?

Water

Oxygen

Carbon
dioxide

Sulfur oxides

Acids and
chemicals
from
organisms

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Directions: Fill in the blank spaces in the graphic organizer below to enumerate the types of metamorphism.

Types of
Metamorphism

Directions: Fill in the blank spaces in the table to describe how rocks are metamorphosed.
Process How rocks can be metamorphosed in this way?
Recrystallization

Phase change

Neocrystallizatio
n

Pressure solution

Plastic
deformation

Directions: Draw on the table the different types of metamorphism. Use sites on the internet as your reference in
order for you to do this activity.
Contact Metamorphism Burial Metamorphism

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Shock Metamorphism Dynamic Metamorphism

Regional Metamorphism Hydrothermal Metamorphism

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