Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary

What is the rock cycle

• a circle made of rocks

• rocks moving from one place to another

• the continuous process of rock changes

• rocks changing shapes

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What is a rock?

• a large piece of gold

• a natural solid that is arranged in a repeating pattern

• magma

• a material made up of 1 or more minerals

Weathering is the process of

• rocks being broken down into smaller pieces

• wind and water carrying away bits of rocks

• the slow never-ending process of rock changes

• melted rock inside Earth

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Erosion is

• a natural solid that is arranged in a repeating pattern

• the process of rocks being broken down into smaller pieces

• wind and water carrying away bits of rock

• a material made up of 1 or more minerals

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Melted rock inside Earth is

• a rocky tube in a volcano

• a volcano

• lava

• magma

A mountain that forms from red hot melted rock is a

• material made up of 1 or more mineral

• crater

• vent

• volcano

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A vent is a

• a large basin formed at the top of an exploded volcano

• rocky tube in a volcano in which magma rises

• melted rock outside Earth

• a mountain that forms from red hot melted rock

Melted rock outside Earth is

• magma

• crater

• lava

• vent

A crater is a

• lake

• a rocky tube in a volcano

• a large basin formed at the top of an exploded vocano

• a material made up of one of more minerals

A natural solid that is arranged in a repeating pattern is

• concrete

• a mineral

• a rock

• lava