Rock Cycle Vocabulary

Rock formed by layers of sediment

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Organic materials carried and deposited by water or wind

• Fossils

• Minerals

• Lava

• Magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• Magma

• Weather

• Lava

• Erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Hot, molten rock below the Earth's surface

• Igneous Rock

• Lava

• Volcano

• Magma

Small pieces of sand, clay and other material broken down by weathering and erosion

• Sediment

• Minerals

• Fossils

• Rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rocks formed by volcanoes or when magma solidifies

• Igneous Rocks

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Magma

The remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived in another geologic age

• Minerals

• Fossils

• Magma

• Lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

To age or change as a result of being exposed to the elements

• Erosion

• Minerals

• Rain

• Weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rocks formed by intense heat and pressure. These rocks were once Igneous or Sedimentary

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Granite

Molten rock that erupts from a volcano

• Erosion

• Magma

• Igneous Rock

• Lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2