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Earth's Materials

Rocks - 4.10 - 4.15

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rock that forms when magma cools igneous rock
Rock that forms when another rock is changed by heat and/or pressure metamorphic rock
Usually, a collection of minerals. Sometimes a rock may be made of materials that are not minerals rock
Small particle of soil or rock deposited by wind or water sediment
Rock that forms from sediments that are compacted and/or cemented together, or from the precipitation of material from a liquid sedimentary rock
Melted rock magma
Something left behind by a once-living organism. Fossils can be things like bones or footprints fossil
Particles of rock or minerals ranging in size from clay to giant boulder sediment
Changes in a rock that result from temperature increases when a body of magma contacts a cooler existing rock contact metamorphism
Flat layers in rocks due to squeezing by pressure foliation
Changes in rock that occur because of high pressure over a large area regional metamorphism
Formation of mineral grains from cooling magma crystallization
Transport of weathered materials and sediments by water, wind, ice, or gravity erosion
Solid state change in an existing rock due to high temperature and/or pressure that creates a metamorphic rock metamorphism
Dropping of sediments into a deposit sedimentation
Chemical or physical breakdown of rocks, soils, or minerals at Earth’s surface weathering
Created by: kkalnin
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