Chapter 10 Vocab

a natural occurring, solid material made of various minerals that compose most of the earth's crust

• mineral

• rock

• clast

• foliated metamorphic rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

how a rock looks and feels according to the sizes of the mineral grains and other particles that compose the rock

• grains

• hardness

• roughness

• texture

pieces of mineral crystals, rock fragments, and even fossils in a rock that determine its texture

• grain

• texture

• sedimentary rock

• sand

a rock formed by solidified magma

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• clast

a rock made of sediments produced by erosion, deposition, compaction, and crementaion

• igneous rock

• precipitation

• sedimentary rock

• clastic sedimentary rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a piece of broken or eroded rock

• grain

• sedimentary rock

• precipitation

• clast

a rock made from eroded fragments or clasts or other rocks

• clastic sedimentary rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• chemical sedimentary rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

a sedimentary rock composed of materials that are not clastic erosion sediments

• texture

• grain

• regional metamorphism

• nonclastic sedimentary rock

formed from sediments that weren't clasts of rocks

• chemical sedimentary rock

• clevage

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

any process that causes chemical substances dissolved in water to form a solid compound that settles out of solution

• clast

• rock sycle

• precipitation

• dynamic metamorphism

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2