The rock cycle is referred to as cycle because it repeats over and over again. The definition of cycle is a series of events that are regularly related in the same order. So with the rock cycle they stay in the same order and repeat.
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Increasing every day. in 2013, we had about 7.125 Billion. in 9160, we had closer to 3 billion. It is still on a pretty steady clime today.