Rock Forming Vocabulary Review

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Breaking rock into smaller pieces

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Weathering

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Sediments

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Small pieces of weathered rock

Front

Process of moving sediments

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Erosion

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Process of sediments being dropped

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Deposition

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Process of squeezing sediments together

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Compaction

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Process of gluing sediment grains

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Cementation

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Cementation

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Gluing sediments together

Front

Liquid to solid process

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Crystallization

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State of matter before crystallization

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Liquid

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Main factor for crystallization

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Cooling