| A | B |
|---|
| Mineral | a natural solid with chemical and physical structures |
| Magma | melted rock in the upper mantle |
| Igneous rock | rock that forms when magma cools in or on Earth's crust |
| Lava | Magma that reaches the surface |
| Weathering | the breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces |
| Erosion | the movement of weathered rock pieces |
| Deposition | dropping of sediment by wind, water, or ice |
| Sedimentation | the process that builds up of sediment |
| Cementation | the gluing together of pieces of sediment |
| Clastic rock | made of sediments that have been weathered and erroded |
| Chemical rock | formed from minerals dissovled |
| metamorphism | process by which any kind of rock is changed |
| rock cycle | process by which rocks are formed by one another |
