vocab Quarter 3

Igneous Rock

• a whole or part of a plant or animal that has been preserved in sedimentary rock.
• the continuous movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again.
• rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.
• a wave of water caused by underground Earthquakes.

Sedimentary Rock

• an area of land shaped like a triangle where a river deposits mud, sand, and pebbles as it enters the sea.
• rocks formed when sediments are cemented together.
• the process in which a liquid changes into a gas.
• collected rocks in layers found underground.

Metamorphic Rock

• the process in which a gas changes into a liquid.
• all the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
• rock formed when high heat and great pressure change existing rocks into a new form.
• rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.

Weathering

• breaking down rocks into smaller pieces.
• water in the form of tiny droplets.
• large sheets of moving ice that can cause erosion.
• the water that falls to the Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.

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Erosion

• a sudden release of energy inside the Earth that sends out waves, shaking the ground.
• an area of land shaped like a triangle where a river deposits mud, sand, and pebbles as it enters the sea.
• the water that falls to the Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• natural forces move (carry away) or remove large amounts of rock and soil. This is done by the actions of the wind, waves, glaciers, and running water.

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Sediment

• rocks formed when sediments are cemented together.
• various materials that have settled at the bottom of a body of water or any liquid.
• a sand hill made by the wind near the ocean or large lake in the desert.
• the process in which sediment settles out of water or is dropped by wind.

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Bedrock

• collected rocks in layers found underground.
• a huge mass of loosened soil and rock material pulled down a slope by gravity.
• rocks formed when sediments are cemented together.
• the water that falls to the Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.

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Uplifting

• the continuous movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again.
• the process in which a liquid changes into a gas.
• all the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
• the process of forces in Earth that bring rock from below the crust up to the surface of the crust.

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Water Cycle

• all the kinds of landforms in a certain place.
• the continuous movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again.
• the process in which a liquid changes into a gas.
• a huge mass of loosened soil and rock material pulled down a slope by gravity.

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Evaporation

• large sheets of moving ice that can cause erosion.
• collected rocks in layers found underground.
• natural forces move (carry away) or remove large amounts of rock and soil. This is done by the actions of the wind, waves, glaciers, and running water.
• the process in which a liquid changes into a gas.

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