Classifying Rocks Vocabulary

the processes by which rocks change into new rocks; energy from the Sun and Earth’s hot interior drives this

• Rock Cycle

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorpjoc

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

form from melting and cooling (crystallization) of magma, lava, or other rocks that were melted deep w/i Earth

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

Pre-existing rocks that have changed due to heat and pressure

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

Come from erosion, deposition, and cementation of sediments laid down at the bottom of bodies of water

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

Melting and cooling of magma, also known as crystallization

• deposition

• weathering

• solidification

• compaction and cementation

molten rock under Earth’s surface.

• lava

• magma

• crystals

• erosion

magma that has reached Earth's surface

• magma

• igneous

• lava

• sedimentary

an igneous rock that forms SLOWLY beneath earth's surface, making large crystals

• intrusive

• extrusive

• pretty

an igneous rock that forms QUICKLY on earth's surface, will small or no crystals

• intrusive

• extrusive

• pretty

When rocks are broken down by Earth's processes

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

• compaction/cementation