Chapter 3 Section 1 Notes

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Chapter 3 Section 1 Notes

• Rocks The Rock Cycle

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Rock

• Mixture of such minerals, rock fragments,
  volcanic glass organic matter or other natural
  materials
• There are three types of rock metamorphic,
  igneous and sedimentary

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Rock Cycle

• Processes that create and change rocks
• Any rock can change into any of the others
• How does this relate to things we learned about
  last year?
• Conservation of matter
• Erosion

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James Hutton

• Scottish physician and naturalist
• 1st recognized (and published)
• observations that rocks undergo
• profound changes
• Geologists scientists who
• study rocks