The rock cycle is a basic concept in geology that describes the time-consuming transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. As the adjacent diagram illustrates, each of the types of rocks is altered or destroyed when it is forced out of its equilibrium conditions. An igneous rock such as basalt may break down and dissolve when exposed to the atmosphere, or melt as it is subducted under a continent. Due to the driving forces of the rock cycle, plate tectonics and the water cycle, rocks do not remain in equilibrium and are forced to change as they encounter new environments. The rock cycle is an illustration that explains how the three rock types are related to each other, and how processes change from one type to another over time. This cyclical aspect makes rock change a geologic cycle and, on planets containing life, a biogeochemical cycle.
Plate movements drive the rock cycle by pushing rocks back into the mantle, where they melt and become magna again. Plate movements also cause the folding, faulting and uplift of the crust that move rocks through the rock cycle.
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Solid to liquid
Liquid to solid
By adding or removing heat energy aka thermal energy
C. sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and
nitrogen oxides
These three chemical compounds play a
role in the chemistry of acid rain or acid precipitation. These compounds are
then in the process as they evaporate are converted into acids, mainly, nitric
acid and sulfuric acid. These toxic gases that composes acid precipitation is
actually caused by industries, factories or plants that utilizes such chemicals
and then uses a humongous amount which then is released in during the process
of certain products or manufactured objects.
Answer:
when the ground is very hot and the air is cool.
Explanation:
The hot earth warms a layer of air right above the ground. Light is refracted as it passes through the cool air and onto the hot air sheet (bent). A coating of very warm air near the earth bends the light from the sky almost into a U-shaped bend.
