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The Rock Cycle For this lab, you will learn about and use the rock cycle. I recommend that you print the lab, record your answers, and then use those to input your answers into our online class site so that you can then get credit for the laboratory exercise. The rock cycle is the repeating events that gradually and continuously change rocks from one type to another. It is often displayed in diagrams that help to visualize this cycle, such as Figure 1 below. As an example, we will follow one possible cycle of the rock cycle, although there are many different paths that nature can take on the rock cycle. When magma either rises towards or reaches the surface, it cools and solidifies, undergoing crystallization to become igneous rock. Once they are at the surface, igneous rocks are slowly broken down by weathering, forming sediment. This sediment can be eroded and deposited. As sediment accumulates in layers, lithification begins, as it compacts and cements together, making a sedimentary rock. Over time, sedimentary rocks are buried under other sediments or are caught in movements of the crust that expose them to high temperatures and pressures, such as subduction. The heat.