Rock Vocab

The process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass

• Depostion

• Compaction

• Cementation

• Erosion

A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Rock Cycle

• Deposition

Weathering is..

• Weather

• the breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface

• Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations

• Molten rock rising to the Earth's surface

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Rock that has been changed by heat and pressure

• Metamorphic rock

• Polymorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Igneous rock

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A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface

• Metamorphic rock

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Heavy rock

Magma is...

• typically a cold substance found in the polar ice caps.

• molten rock beneath the earth's surface

• found on the earth's surface

• a substance that comes from living things

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken and carried away

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Compaction

The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight.

• Compaction

• Cementation

• Rock Cycle

• Erosion

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Define "Sedimentary Rock"

• Formed under the earth's surface when heat and pressure are applied

• formed when sediments are compacted together over a long period of time

• when rocks are broken down

• I don't have a clue

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Define "Weathering"

• When rocks are broken down into sediments

• Process of rocks changing from one type to another

• Moves sediments using gravity, water, wind, or ice

• When sediments and particles are carried away by erosion and are dropped elsewhere

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