Rocks and Minerals Vocabulary

Rocks that have formed from magma that has cooled

• rock
• sedimentary rock
• metamorphic rock
• Igneous Rock

A naturally occurring solid substance that do not come from animal or plant

• Vegetable
• Mineral
• sediment

• Fruit

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Rocks that have been changed from other rocks by heat and pressure

• Igneous rocks
• Metamorphic rocks
• Sedimentary rocks
• Volcanic rocks

Hot molten rock located deep below the earth's surface

• melted rock
• rock
• lava
• magma

Rocks that have formed from being compacted and made up of sediment that have cemented together

• Volcanic rocks
• Metamorphic rocks
• Sedimentary rocks
• Igneous rocks

A solid made up of one or more minerals

• Light
• Rock
• Air
• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Many pieces of broken down rock and soil

• pebbles
• sediment
• gravel
• dirt

Particles are dropped in a new location

• Raining

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

The process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces by chemical or physical forces

• erosion
• melting
• compaction
• weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again

• rock cycle
• rock metamorphosis
• rock evolution
• rock transformation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1