Rock Cycle Vocabulary Study Guide

a model describing the transformations of rocks from one major rock type to another

• Rock cycle

• lava

• magma

• Geothermal Energy

Melted rock on Earth's surface.

• Magma
• Ash
• Granite
• Lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

melted rock located beneath Earth's surface

• lava
• magma
• igneous rock
• volcanic ash

a natural, renewable energy resource produced by Earth's naturally occurring heat, steam, and hot water

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Hydropower
• Geothermal energy

A type of rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.

• Igneous rock
• Sedimentary rock
• Metamorphic rock
• Limestone

a type of rock formed by gravity pressing fragments of other rocks and minerals together as they settle on land or under the ocean over a long period of time

• Volcanic rock
• Metamorphic rock
• Sedimentary rock
• Igneous rock

one of the major types of rock that is created from previously existing rock by the action of intense heat and pressure

• Igneous rock
• Sedimentary rock
• Metamorphic rock
• Volcanic rock

changes to rocks and minerals on Earth's surface that are caused by chemical reactions.

• Physical weathering
• Erosion
• Metamorphism
• Chemical weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The exertion of force on something so that it becomes more dense.

• Compression

  or compaction

• Decompression
• Dilation
• Expansion

The binding together of particles or other things by cement.

• Cementation
• Sedimentation
• Aggregation
• Compaction