Unit 4 Vocabulary

1. A series of processes on the surface and inside the Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
5. The ingredients or chemical construct of a rock.
14. The chemical and physical processes that breakdown rock and other substances.
15. Sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together under high pressure.
16. A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
18. Small, solid, pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms; Earth materials deposited by erosion.
19. The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil.

2. Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize from a solution
3. The process by which dissolved minerals crystalize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass.
4. The particles of minerals or other rocks that give a rock its texture.
5. Liquefied rock
6. A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or remains of plants and animals are pressed together.
7. The look and feel of a rock's surface determined by the size, shape, and pattern of a rock's grains.
8. Sedimentary rock that forms from remains of organisms deposited in thick layers.
9. Igneous rock that forms from lava on Earth's surface
10. Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.
11. Term used to describe metamorphic rocks that have grains arranged in parallel layers or bands.
12. Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
13. A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface
17. The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight.