SciFu U2L4 Vocab

A combination of one or more minerals or organic matter

• composition

• texture

• cement

• rock

The minerals and the organic matter a rock contains

• intrusive

• composition

• texture

• sample

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The size, shape and position of the grains that make up a rock

• texture

• rock

• hardness

• classification

The rock that forms when magma pushes into or intrudes surrounding rock below Earth's surface and cools

• intrusive igneous rock

• organic sedimentarty rock

• extrusive igneous rock

• Clastics edimentary rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

rock that forms when lava erupts, or extrudes onto Earth's surface

• intrusive igneous rock

• foliated metamorphic rock

• extrusive igneous rock

• nonfoliated metamorphic rock

forms when sediments are buried, compacted and cemented together by calcite or quartz

• clastic sedimentary rock

• chemical sedimentary rock

• organic sedimentary rock

• foliated metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

forms when water, usually seawater, evaporates

• organic sedimentary rock

• nonfoliated metamorphic rock

• chemical sedimentary rock

• clastic sedimentary rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

forms from the remains, or fossils, of once-living plants and animals

• clastic sedimentary rock

• organic sedimentary rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• foliated metamorphic rock

the metamorphic process in which mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands

• foliated metamorphic rock

• nonfoliated metamorphic rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock

metamorphic rocks that do NOT have mineral grains that are aligned in planes or bands

• foliated metamorphic rock

• nonfoliated metamorphic rock

• extrusive igneous rock

• intrusive igneous rock