Rock Cycle Vocab

Weathering

• Wind, ice, water breaking down rock

• Hot liquid rock

• Layers of rock

• Rock formed by heat and pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Strata

• texture of metamorphic rock

• Rock layers

• smoothed out rocks

• magma that has cooled above the surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Erosion

• The process of wind, water or ice transports sediment to somewhere else

• naturally occurring solid mixture of minerarls

• the process in which material is laid down

• processes in which rock forms

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Deposition

• The process of rock material being laid down

• The weathering of rock

• Magma cooling underneath the surface

• Fragmented minerals and rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Magma

• change in shape of a rock

• Hot, liquid rock

• Rock cooled above the surface

• Broken up minerals and rocks

Uplift

• Material is laid down

• Magma that has cooled

• Rock that is moved up towards the surface

• Rockets launching

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Sediment

• Rock changing shape

• Layers of rock

• Being emotional about something

• Rock and mineral fragments

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Rock Cycle

• Rocks being put on a ferris wheel

• Series of processes in which rock forms, changes, and is destroyed over and over

• process of rock being transported by wind, ice or water

• The hot liquid that forms when partially metled

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Metamorphic Rock

• Rock formed by heat and pressure

• Rock formed by layers of sediment

• Rock formed by cooling magma

• Rock thats been changed by erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Sedimentary Rock

• Rock formed by cooling magma

• Rock that has feelings

• Layers of sediment that get compacted and cemented

• Rock that is formed by heat and pressure