| A | B |
|---|
| fine-grained | The texture of a rock with small crystals. |
| Texture | The size, shape, and position of a rock's minerals. |
| Foliated | When minerals in metamorphic rocks line up in bands. |
| Nonfoliated | Metamorphic rocks made of only one mineral. |
| sediment | grains of rock |
| coarse-grained | Grains of sedimenatry rock that travel a short distance. |
| slate | Type of metamorphic rock formed when pressure is applied to shale. |
| cycle | a continous process with no beginning or end. |
| composition | chemical makeup of rock |
| chemical | Type of sedimentary rock formed when minerla crystallize out of a solution. |
| rock | A naturally ocurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter. |
| weathering | The wearing down of rock. |
| erosion | Moving pieces of rock or sediments to a new location. |
