The most important factor in creating diverse species is individual and separate environments. Species develop based on their unique environment, which "selects" for particular traits.
Explanation:
It can do three things:
1) It can erode/weather to form new sediments that later become a new sedimentary rock.
2) It can undergo heat and pressure changes and become metamorphic rock.
3) It can be melted and solidify into igneous rock.
Once this happens, it can repeat any of these processes.
