6th grade ROCKS - SMS
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| rock | formed from one or more minerals
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| Igneous rocks | rocks formed from molton earth materials
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| Extrusive Igneous rocks | formed by molton rockon the earths surface; when magma comes out of a volcano then cools and hardens
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| Intrusive Igneous rocks | formed from molton rock cooling within the earth's crust
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| sedimentary rocks | formed by weathering and deposition
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| Clastic sedimentary rock | sedimentary rock made of rock fragments, minerals, and broken shells
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| Non-clastic sedimentary rock | sedimentary rocks that are formed from solutions or by organic processes
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| metamorphic rocks | formed by changes in pre-existing rocks cuased by extreme temps, pressure or both
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| wind | erosion agent that is likely in a flat plain with little rain
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| Appalachian Mountains | location where mass wasting is most likely to occur
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| cooling & hardening | processes that allow magma or lave to form into igneous rock
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| heat & pressure | processes that allow sedimentary rock to form into metamorphic rocks
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| weathering | process that allows rocks to break up
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| chemical weathering | breaking down rocks by changing their composition
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| erosion | moving of earth materials from one place to another
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| glacial deposition | when glaciers leave behind earth materials
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| glacial erosion | earth material moved downhill by an ice sheet
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| glaciers | large mass of ice sliding over the earth's surface
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| groundwater | water that has seeped into and beneath the soil
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| mass wasting | large amounts of rocks pulled downhill by gravity
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| physical weathering | breaking down rocks by only changing the size
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| rock cycle | the orderly processes which form and change rocks
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| soil | a mixture of weathered rock & decayed organic matter
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| deposition | the laying down, depositing, of sediment in one place
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| compaction | pressing together sediment
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| cementation | sediment that becomes glued together over time
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