Unit 6 Vocabulary

What is the rock cycle?

• the creation, transformation, and breakdown of rocks over time

• how rocks are formed

• the life of a rock

• Dwayne Johnson's nickname

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What is a sedimentary rock?

• sediments that form a group of rocks

• sediment that was compacted and cemented

• gravel on the road

• type of rock found in nature

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What is an igneous rock?

• Iggy Azalea's alter ego

• A rock found in nature

• formed when magma or lava cools and hardens

• marble countertops

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What is a metamorphic rock?

• The process to turn into a caterpillar

• all of the rocks combined by lava

• the rocks formed from volcanoes

• A rock changes form because of heat or pressure

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What is cementation?

• The process of sediments gluing or combining to create rocks

• gravel

• What sidewalks are made of

• The process of making cement

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What is sediment?

• Where the Flintstones live

• Small pieces of broken rock

• Small pieces of rock on the roads

• Aftermath of an earthquake

What is compaction?

• What happens to trash

• A type of trashcan

• the process of sediments pushing together by weight and pressure

• sediments separating from each other

What is crust?

• The end of the slice of pizza

• the solid, outermost layer of the Earth

• a layer of dirt and rocks

• dry, cracked soil

Lithosphere

• More crust

• 2 layers of soil

• outer layer of the Earth containing the crust and asthenosphere

• where diamonds are formed

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Asthenosphere

• below the lithosphere

• magma

• located in the sky

• the upper layer of the Earth's mantle