Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Class: ____________

Rock Cycle Interactivity

Go to http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle
Click Types of Rocks. Read the text and answer the following questions (they go in order).
1. The three rock types are ________________________, _________________________, and ______________________.

2. Sedimentary rocks are formed from different particles or fragments of materials called _________________________.
Sedimentary rocks are usually the only rock type that contains __________________________.

3. Metamorphic rocks form because of intense _____________________ and ______________________. They can be
identified based on their ribbonlike __________________________ and may have crystals.

4. Igneous rocks can form from ______________________ inside the earth. They can also from when a
____________________ erupts on the surface. When __________________________ cools very quickly no
__________________form. When magma cools slowly large crystals form.
At the bottom of Types of Rocks click Next: Start your rock collection. Make your collection then at the bottom of the
page click Identify Rock Types. Fill in the answers below as you complete the activity on the computer.

5. Which of the characteristics can you see in marble?

_____________________________

6. Which of the three main classes does marble belong to?

_____________________________

7. Which of the characteristics can you see in conglomerate?

_____________________________

8. Which of the three main classes does conglomerate belong to?

_____________________________

9. Which of the characteristics can you see in obsidian?

_____________________________

10. Which of the three main classes does obsidian belong to?

_____________________________

11. Which of the characteristics can you see in limestone?

_____________________________

12. Which of the three main classes does limestone belong to?

_____________________________

13. Which of the characteristics can you see in gneiss?

_____________________________

14. Which of the three main classes does gneiss belong to?

_____________________________

15. Based on your answers to the questions above what features can sedimentary rocks have?
a. Crystals
c. Glassy Surface
e. Ribbonlike layers
b. Sand and pebbles
d. Fossils
16. Based on your answers to the questions above what features can metamorphic rocks have?
a. Crystals
c.
Glassy Surface
Ribbonlike layers
b. Sand and pebbles d.
Fossils
a.
b.

17. Based on your answers to the questions above what features can metamorphic rocks have?
Crystals
c.
Glassy Surface
Ribbonlike layers
Sand and pebbles d.
Fossils

Click next chapter or How Rocks Change. Read the sections and click to watch the video.
Heat and Pressure
18. Temperatures increase below the earths surface where rocks can change without ___________________________ or
turning back into magma.
19. Rocks can also transform when ________________________ caused by tons of other rocks press down from above.
Click the Next button on the bottom right corner of the page.
Heating and Cooling
20. When a rock melts, it turns into a substance called _______________________.
21. When lava explodes from a volcano it forms an ______________________________ igneous rock.
22. Magma inside the earth cools very slowly forming ______________________________ igneous rock.
Click the red Next button on the bottom right corner of the page.
Weathering & Eroding and Compaction & Cementing
23. Over time ____________________________ accumulate in layers, the weight presses the sediments together,
___________________________________ them. Water passes through the spaces between the particles
___________________________________ them together even more.
24. The process of _______________________ and _________________________ sediment forms sedimentary rock.
Click Transform the Rock at the bottom of the page. The questions below correspond to the activitys questions. Fill in
the answers while you complete the activity on the computer.
25. What can turn pebbles and sand into a conglomerate?
26. What process can turn limestone into marble?

___________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

27. What process can turn obsidian into sediment? _________________________________________________________

28. What process can turn gneiss into magma?

_________________________________________________________

29. Magma deep inside the earth turns into granite. What process made this happen?
30. What is the name of the process that turned granite into sediment?
31. What process turns sand into sandstone?

_____________________________

_____________________________________

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32. What process can turn sandstone into quartzite? _________________________________________________________

33. What turns quartzite into magma?

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Click on The Rock Cycle Diagram. Explore the diagram by looking over the names of the rock types and clicking
the images. When you are done, scroll to the bottom of the page, click on Complete the Cycle.
34. When rocks are affected by weathering and erosion, they change into ________________________.
35. When sediment is compacted and cemented, it changes into _________________________.
36. When heat and pressure are applied to a sedimentary rock, it changes into __________________________.
37. When melting of a metamorphic rock occurs, it changes into ____________________________.
38. When magma is cooled, it changes into __________________________.
39. To turn sediment in to sedimentary rock ___________________________________________ must happen
40. The interrelationship among the three rock types is called ________________________________________________.