Grade 6 Science · Earth & Space Science

The rock cycle

Follow rock as it melts, cools, wears away, settles in layers and is squeezed into new kinds of rock.

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Deep underground, heat melts rock into magma.

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Any kind of rock can become any other kind; there is no single path.
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Sunlight and gravity drive the steps at the surface. Earth’s inner heat drives melting and metamorphism.
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Most steps take thousands to millions of years.
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