Rock Cycle Vocabulary Words

Question 1

Rock

Answer 1

A solid made up of many different minerals

Question 2

Sedimentary Rock

Answer 2

Rocks that have been formed through the deposition and solidification of sediment

Question 3

Igneous rock

Answer 3

Formed by a volcano or the solidification of molten rock.

Question 4

Metamorphic rock

Answer 4

Formed by extreme heat and pressure that changes the structure of rock.

Question 5

Rock Cycle

Answer 5

The process in which rocks are continuously transformed between the 4 rock types.

Question 6

Sediment

Answer 6

Minerals or organic mater carried and deposited by water or wind that may consolid into rock.

Question 7

Weathering

Answer 7

To age or change rock as a result of being exposed to the elements: wind, ice, water, and extreme temperatures

Question 8

Erosion

Answer 8

The movement of small pieces of rock sediment due to wind, water, gravity and other natural forces

Question 9

Dempsition

Answer 9

When sediments are deposited or dropped off in a different location.

Question 10

Cementation

Answer 10

The hareding and sticking of minerals grains.

Question 11

Molten

Answer 11

Liquified by heat

Question 12

Magma

Answer 12

A hot, Molten rock below the Earth’s surface

Question 13

Lava

Answer 13

Molten rock that erupts from a volcano: above the earths surface