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Understanding the Never-Ending Rock Cycle

Explore the fascinating process of the rock cycle, a continuous sequence where rocks transform over time. This cycle begins with volcanoes erupting magma that solidifies into rock. Weathering breaks down these rocks into small fragments, which rivers transport to oceans. There, they settle and form new sedimentary rocks. Over time, heat and pressure can melt these rocks again, creating magma and starting the cycle anew. Discover how this endless process shapes our planet and contributes to the Earth’s dynamic geology.

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Understanding the Never-Ending Rock Cycle

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  1. Rock On! The Never –Ending Cycle of Changing Rocks By Martha Bakula

  2. Cycles • To understand the rock cycle, it is important to understand what a cycle is. A cycle is when things happen over and over in the same order like sunrise, daytime, sunset and nighttime.

  3. The rock cycle is a never-ending cycle of rocks changing over time. Volcanoes throw out magma (melted rock) which hardens into rock. Weather wears away the hardened rock into bits of tiny rock pieces. Rivers carry the rock bits to oceans. The tiny pieces settle on the bottom of the ocean and pile up and form new rocks. Heat inside the earth melts some of these rocks. Then volcanoes throw them out as magma and the never-ending rock cycle begins again.

  4. Hardened magma Layers of broken bits of rock Melted rock

  5. Bibliography: ETE Team, unknown. "Earth Floor" Wheeling Jesuit University Wheeling Jesuit University. 11 Jun. 2003 <http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html Morris, Neil . Rocks and Minerals. New York: Crabtree Publishing, 1998.

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