Rock Transformation Vocabulary Practice

What is the process of sediment being glued together called?

• Cementation

• Compaction

What is the process of sediment being buried and pressed together called?

• Compaction

• Erosion

What is a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like called?

• Cementation

• Cross section

What is the ability to make things move or change called?

• Energy

• Plate

What is the movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water called?

• Compaction

• Erosion

What is the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid called?

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

What is the hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth called?

• Magma

• Mineral

What is anything that has mass and takes up space called?

• Sample

• Matter

What is the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock called?

• Metamorphic rock

• Plate

What is one of the many different types of matter that make up rocks called?

• Sample

• Mineral