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Rock and minerals
6th grade vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| compaction | when mud or sediment press together in layer in water by gravity and the water is squeezed out and this makes rocks |
| igneous rock | rocks made from lava or magma that cools and form or make rock |
| metamorphic rock | rocks formed or made deep underground from heat and pressure |
| mineral | a naturally made ingorganic solid with a specific chemical makeup that repeats .one kind of pure natrual solid |
| mineral compostion | combination of solid elements and compounds that make up a mineral |
| rock cycle | the cycle that makes rocks where rocks change into another rock |
| sedimentary | rocks formed or made when mud or sediment lay in stack in water and the water is squeezed out to makes rocks |