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When lava melts it cools and forms molten material.

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Q: What does melting mean in the rock cycle?
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What stage in the rock cycle is between metamorphic rock and igneous rock?

Melting.


How does the rock cycle recycle rocks?

The rock cycle can recycle rocks from melting and giving pressures to sediments.


Which process in the rock cycle causes magma to form?

Melting is the process in the rock cycle that causes magma to form.


What stage in the rock cycle is can every type of rock go through directly?

Melting is the stage every rock in the rock cycle can go through.


What factors and processes can affect the pathway that igneous rock takes in the rock cycle?

Melting and cooling


What kind of rock forms from melting sedimentary rock?

metamorphic is the next one but just type in the rock cycle it'll tell you!


What three things can happen to a sedimentary rock in the rock cycle?

erosion and weathering heat and pressure melting and solidification


Which process cannot happen in a rock cycle?

Sedimentary melting cooling and hardening Metamorphic


Do fossils go through the rock cycle and if they do do they get melted?

Fossils definitely go through the rock cycle. Melting at some future point of time is a possibility, but not a certainty.


What does subduction mean in the rock cycle?

metamorphic rock


What are the parts of the rock cycle?

weathering,erosion,deposition,compaction and cementation,metamorphism,melting,cooling and solidification.


What is the continuous process by which one type of rock changes into another?

The rock cycle is the process through which rocks change from one type to another. This process includes melting, metamorphism, uplift, weathering, and burial. Metamorphism is specifically the change of pre-existing rock into new rock through pressure and temperature.