Project GCSE logo
Click here for GCSE coursework!

GCSE subject: English | Maths | Biology | Chemistry | Physics | Geography | History | Food tech | French | IT | Music | RS
Click to chat in GCSE forums | Click for 1000s of GCSE courseworks online!

GCSE Chemistry> The rock cycle
The rock cycle the process of cycling rocks involving sedimentary, igneous and metamorphical processes.

Calcium in the shells of dead sea animals gets buried under the sea. It is heated and recrystallized. This turns it into metamorphic rock e.g. slate. This rock is then melted and it turns into magma.

Rock only changes if it moves around. For example igneous rock is stable as long as it remains deep underground but if it moves to the earth's surface, where the temperature is lower and it is surrounded by oxygen, water and weak acids, it can be changed by breaking down.

The rock cycle is driven by energy; usually in the form of heat.

Big crystals show a rock cooled slowly from magma deep underground and small crystals show it cooled quickly on the surface.

Click here for coursework essays on The rock cycle

side bar Click here for GCSE forums!

Google
 
Web projectgcse.co.uk

HOME | GCSE bookshop | GCSE Forums | Take a break | GCSE coursework
Bookmark us | Submit your work | Help and advice | GCSE links | Thanks to

GCSEs.com | Project revision | Project Alevel | Project iGCSE | Revision bookshop | Project education
Contact us | Privacy policy | Advertise here
© Matthew Woollard 2004