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Mo9-L2c: What is the Rock Cycle?

Mountains can affect the amount of precipitation SUMMARY
an area receives—a phenomenon known as the What are Weather and Climate?
rain-shadow effect.
Weather and climate are inf uenced by
interactions between the atmosphere and
the other Earth systems.

Mo9-L2c What is the Rock Cycle? uplift
the process that moves large bodies of Earth
materials to higher elevations.
KEY CONCEPTS:
1. How does the rock cycle show interaction of Earth
systems?

Vocabulary A-Z

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rock cycle
the series of processes that change one type of rock
into another type of rock. The Rock Cycle

The rock cycle is the series of processes that
transport and continually change rocks into different
forms.

As rocks move through the rock cycle, they might
become igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, or
metamorphic rocks.
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