One of type of rock is sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rocks go through a long process to become a sedimentary rock.

The first process is weathering, the process in which wind, water, ice, gravity, and heat break down a rock. The second process is erosion, the process in which these bits of rocks (called sediment) are transported from one place to another. The third process is deposition, the process in which sediment is laid down on top of old layers. The last process is compaction and cementation, the process in which dissolved minerals (calcite + quartz) separate from water and pass through sediment to form natural cement that binds rocks and minerals together. Here are a few ways to identify sedimentary rocks. One way to identify them is to look for visible strata (strata-layers of rock) or bits or chunks of rock or ripple marks and mud cracks in clastic sedimentary rock. Chemical sedimentary rock can be identified from the mineral it is mixed with. Lastly, for organic sedimentary rock, you can look for fossils. Since there are so many processes that there are to create sedimentary rocks, it takes hundreds of years. Another type of rock is igneous rock. There is a thing about igneous rock. It has to become magma before it can become igneous rock. Its process literally follows its name igneous which means fire or born of fire. There are three ways for a rock to change to magma. One way is temperature: a rise in temperature can cause the minerals in a rock to melt. Different melting points cause some minerals to melt while other minerals remain solid. Another is composition: when fluid such as water combine with a rock, the composition of the rock changes which lowers

the melting point of the rock enough to melt. Finally is pressure: the high pressure deep inside the earth forces minerals to remain solid, when hot lava rises to shallow depths the pressure is released an they can melt. After it turns to lava once it cools and it becomes igneous rock. You can identify them by a few things. One thing is looking for very dark or light rocks. The other way is looking for glassy like texture or little holes. It must take a long time for lava to cool. The last type of rock is metamorphic rock. A few things are needed to a rock to change it into a metamorphic rock. One thing is it must be 2 km below the surface for metamorphism to occur. It also must be at 50*C at that distance for a minimum. To identify a metamorphic rock you can look for foliation (the texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in bands or planes) or nonfoliation (the texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are not arranged in bands or planes) on a flat or compressed looking rock. It hard to imagine metamorphism happening to a rock. Most of my rocks are similar to my descriptions. With sedimentary rocks, I had all the different types of sedimentary they all had fossil or others things of that sort in them, little bits or chunks of rock, or (in chemicals case,) crystals. For igneous rock, they all had little holes, a glassy surface, or light or dark colored except for about 3 of the eight that didnt follow those. The metamorphic rocks all stuck to the rules, but where extremely diverse

and most interesting of them all. Besides all the stress of getting rocks done, the rock lab was fun.