Rock Rover
Rock types are stages in a cycle: cooling makes igneous rock, surface weathering plus deposition and cementing makes sedimentary rock, heat and pressure make metamorphic rock, and melting returns rock to magma.
Earth ScienceAges 8-13~9 min🎙️ Voice tutor
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What your child will figure out
- Classify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks from visible structural clues.
- Choose the geological process that transforms one material or rock type into the next.
- Predict the result of a process before observing the rock transform.
- Transfer the cycle model to multi-step routes between unfamiliar starting and target stages.
The levels
- Meet the rock crew
Identify all three rock types from crystals, layers, and folded bands.
- Volcano forge
Predict that cooling and solidifying magma makes igneous rock, then identify the result.
- Deep-earth squeeze
Transform sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock without melting it.
- Canyon rescue
Transfer the cycle model by routing metamorphic rock through magma to igneous rock in two steps.
Ready when they are.
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