Science Vocabulary List 4 - All About Rocks

Chemicals

• Materials found on the moon

• materials found on Earth and around Earth 

• a type of candy

• a type of river

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Volcanoes

• places where waves are made

• places where sharks are born

• places where rocks fall down

• places where the melted rock comes out on the surface of the Earth 

Magma

• a type of dessert

• melted rock inside Earth 

• Solid rock inside the Earth

• a type of ice cream

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Lava

• melted rock on the surface of the Earth 

• Melted rock inside the Earth

• Solid rock on the surface of the earth

• Melted rock on the surface of the ocean

Mid-Ocean Range

• A type of ocean current

• a single volcano

• a line of volcanoes on the bottom of an ocean 

• A single volcano on the top of a mountain range.

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Plates

• somewhere where you put food on

• Large, thin pieces of Earth's crust that stay still

• large, thick pieces of Earth’s crust that move 

• A type of dinnerware

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Pressure

• a rip

• a tug

• a push 

• a pull

Seafloor Spreading

• The way rock is taken away from the earth's crust.

• the way rock is added to Earth’s crust on the bottom of an ocean 

• a type of wave

• a type of storm

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Igneous Rock

• a type of rock found only in deserts

• the kind of rock that forms when magma cools

• The kind of rock that forms when magma is hot

• A type of dusty rock

Crystals

• a type of ice cream

• A type of salt

• tiny structures with flat sides and angles 

• Large structures with flat angles and sides