Rock Transformations Vocabulary Practice

The process of sediment being glued together

• Cementation

• Erosion

• Sediment

• Weathering

The process of sediment being buried and pressed together

• Compaction

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Sediment

The ability to make things move or change

• Magma

• Plate

• Energy

• Sediment

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water

• Sediment

• Plate

• Magma

• Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water.

• Erosion

• Magma

• Sediment

• Plate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Igneous rock

• The type of rock formed when sediment is pressed and glued together

• The type of rock formed when magma cools and becomes solid

• The type of rock formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock

Sedimentary rock

• The type of rock formed when sediment is pressed and glued together

• The type of rock formed when magma cools and becomes solid

• The type of rock formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock

Metamorphic rock

• The type of rock formed when sediment is pressed and glued together

• The type of rock formed when magma cools and becomes solid

• The type of rock formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock

Hot, liquid rock below the surface of the Earth

• Magma

• Plate

• Sediment

• Erosion

Anything that has mass and takes up space

• Plate

• Sediment

• Magma

• Matter

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5