The Rock Cycle

Use your rock cycle notes to help you answer the clues. NO SPACES in between words.

Word Bank
Cementation, Classify, Compaction, Compaction and Cementation, Composition, Deposition, Erosion, Everywhere, Grain, Heat and Pressure, Igneous, Lava and Magma, Metamorphic, Rock, Rock Cycle, Sediment, Sedimentary, Texture, Weathering

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Across

1. The series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock. (2 Words)

5. Keywords describing igneous rock. (3 Words)

8. The grain size and the way grains fit together in a rock.

9. Squeezing of sediment.

10. Type of rock that is created from the cooling and solidifying of magma or lava.

11. Settling of sediment.

13. Rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water as rocks erode.

14. Type of rock created from the cementation and compaction of sediments.

16. Keywords describing metamorphic rock. (3 Words)

17. Rocks are ...

18. Natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains.

19. Materials that the rock is made up of.

Down

2. Keywords describing sedimentary rock. (3 Words)

3. The fragments that make up a rock.

4. Sediment being glued together into a new rock.

6. Moving of sediments from their original position.

7. Geologists use grain size, shape, chemical composition and texture to ________ rocks.

12. Type of rock created through extreme heat and pressure on existing rock.

15. Creation of smaller pieces of rock through physical or chemical means.

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