Rock Cycle Vocabulary Review

The series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed and forms again by geologic processes

• Contact metamorphism

• Foliation

• Rock Cycle

• Compaction

Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies

• Igneous rock

• Clastic Sedimentary rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath Earth’s surface

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Extrusive Igneous rock

• Clastic Sedimentary rock

• Chemical Sedimentary rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Rock that forms from the colling and solidification of lava at Earth’s surface

• Regional metamorphism

• Intrusive Igneous rock

• Extrusive Igneous rock

• Clastic Sedimentary rock

The process in which the volume and porosity of a sediment is decreased by the weight of overlying sediments as a result of burial beneath other sediments

• Cementation

• Compaction

• Foliation

• Nonfoliated

The process in which minerals precipitate into pore spaces between sediment grains and bind sediments together to form rock

• Cementation

• Compaction

• Foliation

• Rock cycle

Sedimentary rock that forms when fragments of preexisting rocks are compacted or cemented together

• Clastic Sedimentary rock

• Chemical Sedimentary rock

• Organic Sedimentary rock

• Igneous rock

The process in which one type of rock changes into metamorphic rock because of chemical processes or changes in temperature and pressure

• Metamorphism

• Cementation

• Compaction

• Nonfoliated

A change in the texture, structure, or chemical composition of a rock due to contact with magma

• Contact metamorphism

• Regional metamorphism

• Nonfoliated

• Clastic Sedimentary rock

A change in the texture, structure, or chemical composition of a rock due to changes in temperature and pressure over a large area

• Contact metamorphism

• Compaction

• Regional metamorphism

• Clastic Sedimentary rock