Classifying rocks 6th grade vocabulary

When rock particles or sediments are pressed together or packed down by gravity and the pressure of overlying rock layers.

• Compaction

• Evolution

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

When compacted sediments stick together and turn into rock

• compaction

• cementation

• evolution

• Igneous

Rock formed when lava or magma cools, forms crystals, and solidifies.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Mineral Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

Rock formed when lava or magma cools, forms crystals, and solidifies.

• Sedementary Rock

• Metamorphosis Rock

• Mineral Cementation

• Igneous Rock

Melted, or molten, rock material beneath Earth's surface; cools slowly to form rocks with larger crystals.

• Magma

• Lave

• Liquid

• Cement

The process that formed and changed Earth from its beginning to the present.

• Sedimentary Rock Process

• Lava Evolution.

• Earth's Evolutio

• Rock Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The unique combination of solid elements and compounds that make up a mineral.

• Magma Composition

• Lava Composition

• Rock Composition

• Mineral Composition

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Molten rock, or magma, that has reached Earth's surface by volcanic action.

• Lava

• Mineral

• Sedement

• Metamorphisis

___________ rock is formed deep underground do to heat and pressure.

• Metamorphic

• Sedementary

• Igneous

• Layered

The cycle through which Earth's rocks change from one type into another over time due to various Earth processes; creates changes in mineral compositions and physical structures.

• Mineral Cycle

• Lava Cycle

• Rock Cycle

• Magma Cycle