Rock Cycle Vocabulary

2. “Geologically ____” when a planet no longer has enough internal heat to run geologic processes such as tectonics, volcanoes, or earthquakes.
6. “Geologically ____” when a planet has enough internal heat to run geologic processes such as tectonics, volcanoes, or earthquakes.
12. The process of natural materials, such as calcite or silica, binding sediment together into rock.
16. Liquid rock that is inside the crust.
17. Type of igneous rock that forms directly from lava on the surface of the Earth. Examples include andesite, rhyolite, and basalt.
18. Type of rock that directly forms either from lava or magma.
19. Liquid rock that erupts on or very near the surface.
20. The process of breaking material down over time.
21. The formation of atoms in a definite pattern forming a crystal lattice.
22. Type of rock that is formed from sediments that have been compressed and cemented.

1. Broken down particles of rock from the very small to gravel size.
3. Type of weathering where rock is physically broken into smaller pieces, but is chemically identical to the parent rock.
4. The process of heat and pressure rearranging the molecules that are in the rock into different minerals. Heat and pressure can also cause folding in the rock and change its texture.
5. The process that can turn any rock back into magma.
7. Type of weathering that breaks down the chemical bonding of materials in the rock and rearranges the atoms into new substances.
8. Type of igneous rock that forms directly from magma inside the Earth’s crust. Examples include gabbro and granite
9. The process where sediment becomes deposited.
10. The process of materials settling out of a fluid.
11. Type of rock that is altered through heat and pressure
13. A massive collection of dust and gasses out in space.
14. An inorganic, naturally occuring substance that forms in a defined crystal lattice.
15. The forcing of materials together under pressure.