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Chapter 3: Rocks

Vocabulary

TermDefinition
BASALTIC Igneous rocks that are dark-colored and dense.
CEMENTATION When water and other minerals move through open spaces between larger sediments, gluing them together.
COMPACTION When layers of small sediments stick together because of pressure.
EXTRUSIVE Igneous rocks that form at or near the Earth's surface.
FOLIATED Metamorphic rocks whose mineral grains flatten and line up in parallel layers or bands.
GRANITIC Igneous rocks that are a lower density and a lighter color.
IGNEOUS ROCK One of the 3 main types of rock that forms from magma found deep under Earth's surface.
INTRUSIVE Igneous rocks that form under the Earth's surface.
LAVA Magma reaching the surface that flows from a volcano.
METAMORPHIC ROCK One of the 3 main types of rock who are changed by temperature, pressure, and hot fluids.
NONFOLIATED Metamorphic rock whose mineral grains grow and rearrange, but do not form layers.
ROCK Mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter, or other material.
ROCK CYCLE Model showing processes that create and change rock.
SEDIMENT Rock fragments, mineral grains, and bits of plants and animal remains moved by wind, water, ice or gravity.
SEDIMENTARY ROCK One of the 3 types of rock that are found mostly on the exposed surfaces of Earth.
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