Vocabulary
Rock Cycle
Types of Rocks
Energy of Rock Formation
Vocabulary Part 2
100
the process of sediment being glued together
cementation
100
A metamorphic rock has the potentional to become what 2 types of rock? 
What are sedimentary and igneous rocks?
100
A rock formed from a ton of little pieces of other rock that were squished together.
What is a sedimentary rock?
100
The process of heat rising.
What are convection currents?
100
small pieces of rock
What is sediment?
200
a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
What is a cross section?
200
The first step of in the rock cycle.
What is weathering?
200
A type of rock forms when existing rock is put under heat and pressure and turns into a new type of rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
The illustration shows this type of plate movement.
What is subduction?
200
a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like
What is a sample?
300
the ability to make things move or change
What is energy?
300
The cooling and solidification of molten rock creates this type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
300
A type of rock is formed by compaction and cementation.
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
The process by which rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion.
What is uplift?
300
hot liquid rock below the Earth's surface
What is magma?
400
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
400
In order for metamorphic rock to turn into sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock must undergo these 5 steps.
What are weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation?
400
Slate, marble, gneiss and quartzite are this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
400
The place where two plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
400
one of the many different types of matter that make up rock
What is a mineral?
500
a region of rock that formed together as a single rock type
What is rock formation?
500
This must happen to sedimentary rock before it can be changed into igneous rock.
What is melted?
500
Obsidian is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
500
Plates in Earth's crust slide past each other horizontally.
What is a transverse boundary?
500
the movement of sediment from one place to another
What is erosion?