VOCAB #8: Rocks and the Rock Cycle, and Fossils

A naturally occurring solid composed of minerals, rock fragments, and sometimes other materials such as organic matter

• rock

• grain

• sediment

• extrusive rock

An individual particle in a rock

• sediment

• grain

• foliation

• lithification

Rock material that forms when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces of dissolved in water as rocks erode

• intrusive rock

• grain

• sediment

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Stacked up layers of sedimentary rock

• deposition

• foliation

• rock cycle

• rock strata

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Rock texture that forms when uneven pressures cause flat minerals to line up, giving the rock a layered appearance

• foliation

• lithification

• deposition

• uplife

The series of processes that that change one type of rock into another type of rock

• crystallization

• rock cycle

• deposition

• uplift

Igneous rock that forms when volcanic material erupts, cools, and crystallizes on Earth’s surface

• crystallization

• sediment

• extrusive rock

• intrusive rock

Igneous rock that forms as magma cools underground

• intrusive rock

• extrusive

The process that moves large bodies of Earth materials to higher elevations

• foliation

• uplift

• extrusive rock

• lithification

process by which sedimentary rocks that are subjected to high temps and pressure transform into metamorphic rock

• deposition

• foliation

• sediment

• crystallization