Rocks and Minerals Vocab

a solid object made up of different minerals

• mineral

• intrusive

• rock

• rock cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

a solid substance that is made inside of the Earth naturally

• metamorphic rock

• minerals

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

rocks made from the cooling of magma or lava

• metamorphic rocks

• sedimentary rocks

• all rocks on Earth

• igneous rocks

igneous rocks that form INSIDE of the Earth

• intrusive

• extrusive

• extraterrestrial

• beach

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

igneous rocks that form OUTSIDE of the Earth

• extrusive

• cementation

• intrusive

• metamorphic

rocks formed from years of sediment compacting and hardening together

• igneous

• crusty rocks

• sedimentary

• cementation

the process where sediments get squeezed together

• rock

• cementation

• minerals

• compaction

the process by which dissolved minerals are compacted and then "glued" (cemented) together

• cementation

• sedimentary

• minerals

• all of the choices are right

rocks that form from great heat and pressure

• metamorphic rocks

• rock cycle

• igneous

• mineral

the journey (changes) a rock goes through as it changes over time

• rock transformers

• rock cycle

• sedimentary

• rock and roll