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Earth Sci Ch 4 Voc 1
Earth Sci Ch 4 Voc part 1
Question | Answer |
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natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains | rock |
geologists call the fragments that make a rock | grains |
grain size and the way grains fit together in a rock | texture |
molten or liquid rock underground | magma |
molten rock that erupts on earth’s surface | lava |
rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water as rocks erode | sediment |
the series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock | rock cycle |
when volcanic material erupts and cools and crystallization on earth’s surface, it forms a type of igneous rock | extrusive rock |
rock that forms when lava cools too quickly to form crystals | volcanic glass |
igneous rocks that form as magma cools underground | intrusive rock |