A | B |
Cooling | The process of reducing heat fast or slow can change how crystal form and rocks harden |
Weathering | The natural breakdown of rocks into particles, usually by rain, ice and wind. The particles become soil and do not move. |
Erosion | Running water or wind loose and carry away the fragments of rock |
Deposition | The process by which sediment settles out or drops out of wind or water |
Compaction | The action of sediment being pressed together to form rocks |
Cementation | Dissolved minerials glue particles together |
Lithification | The process of sediments turning into rock |
Crystalization | These rocks are solid with atoms that grow in a regular or repeated pattern |
Exposure | This process is when rocks are left out in the elements of the Earth |
Pressure | This process in different directions can squeeze and change the structure and pattern in rocks |
Igneous | Rock from Magma |
Metamorphic | changed rock |
Sedmentary | rock made from sediments |
Convergent | plates come together |
Divergent | plates spread apart |
transform | plates slide past each other |
plate | part of Earth's crust |
plate tectonics | the process of moving parts of crust |
sediment | bits of broken rock piling up in layers |
magma | liquid rock |