Rock Cycle Vocabulary
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Rock Cycle Vocabulary
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Rock
• a mixture of one or more minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter, or other
materials
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Sedimentary Rock
• forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together or when minerals
are left behind by evaporation
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Metamorphic Rock
• forms when heat and pressure act on igneous, metamorphic
or sedimentary rock and change its form or make up.
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Igneous Rock
• intrusive or extrusive rock formed when hot magma cools
and hardens
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Rock Cycle
• model that describes how rocks slowly change from one form to another through time
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Sediments
• loose materials such as rock fragments, dirt, silt, and sand
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Magma
• hot, melted rock material beneath the Earth’s surface
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Weathering
• surface process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces
(wind, rain, temperature, etc)
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Erosion
• process in which surface materials (sediments) are worn
away and transported from one place to another by water,
wind, and glaciers
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Deposition
• The process of eroded materials being moved and deposited in another place.
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Cementation
• sedimentary rock-forming process in which large
sediments are held together by natural cements (matrix) like
evaporated mud
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Compaction
• process that forms sedimentary rocks when layers
of small sediments are compressed by the weight of
the layers above