rock cycle vocabulary words

Question 1

rock

Answer 1

a soild made up of many different minarls.

Question 2

sedimentary rocks

Answer 2

rocks that have been formed through the deposition of and solidfiction of sediment

Question 3

ignesous rock

Answer 3

formed by a valcano or the solidifacation of molten rock

Question 4

metamorphic rock

Answer 4

formed by extreme heat or pressure that changes the structure of rock.

Question 5

rock cycle

Answer 5

the process in which rock are continuously transformed between the 3 rock type.

Question 6

sediment

Answer 6

mineral or organic matter carried and deposited by water or wind that may consolidate 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 or sediment due to wind, water, gravity and other natural forces.

Question 9

depositison

Answer 9

when sediments are deposited or dropped of in a different off in a differnt loaction

Question 10

cementation

Answer 10

the hardening and sticking of minarel grains

Question 11

molten

Answer 11

liquefied by heat

Question 12

magma

Answer 12

a hot, molten rock below the earth’s suface

Question 13

lava

Answer 13

molten rock that erupts from a volcano above the earth’s surface.