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The rock cycle document describes the key stages of the rock cycle: weathering breaks down rock into smaller pieces, erosion then transports weathered rock by gravity, wind, water, or wave action, and deposition redeposits eroded rock. Students are instructed to research how different erosion factors impact the ecoregions of Texas as part of understanding how the rock cycle changes within various regions.
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The document discusses the rock cycle, which describes how rocks constantly change form through various natural processes. Rocks can be broken down by weathering into sediments and then transported by erosion. These sediments may be deposited, compacted, and cemented to form sedimentary rocks. Increased heat and pressure can metamorphose sedimentary and igneous rocks. Melting of rocks forms magma that cools and solidifies into new igneous rocks. This cyclic process results in rocks continuously changing their shape and composition over geological time.
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The rock cycle describes how rocks are formed from magma or other existing rocks and changed over time through geological processes. Igneous rocks form from cooling magma, metamorphic rocks form under heat and pressure, and sedimentary rocks form through the weathering of other rocks and deposition of sediments. Rocks are constantly changing between these three types as they move through the rock cycle.
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Sedimentary rock would be the only type of rock that contains fossils because fossils form from the remains of once-living organisms that were buried in sediment layers and lithified over time to form sedimentary rock. Metamorphic rock would be good for building because the heat and pressure it undergoes transforms it into a very hard and durable material well-suited for construction.
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- Mass movement is the downslope movement of rock and sediment due to gravity. It includes rockfalls, landslides, debris flows, and slumps. Mass movement occurs when the gravitational force on a slope exceeds the force resisting the movement.
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- 3. How does the rock cycle change within the different ecoregions of Texas?
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- 5. Weathering Breaking down of rock into smaller pieces
- 6. Erosion
- 7. Erosion Transportation of rock after weathering by either: Gravity Wind Water Wave Action
- 8. Erosion Transportation of rock after weathering by either: Gravity Wind Water Wave Action
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- 12. Wave Erosion
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- 14. Deposition Redepositing of rock after weathering and erosion have occurred
- 15. Deposition Redepositing of rock after weathering and erosion have occurred
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