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| size, shape, and pattern of the rock’s grains. |
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| particles of minerals or other rocks. It gives the rock it's texture. |
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| grains that can only be seen with a microscope. |
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| smooth and rounded,others are jagged. |
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| Some grains will lie in flat layers, others are wavy or swirling. |
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| forms from the cooling of molten rock. |
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| forms when particles of other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. Forms in layers below the surface. |
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| formed when an existing rock is changed by hear, pressure, or chemical reactions. Forms deep underground. |
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| igneous rock formed when lava that erupts onto the Earth's surface. |
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| igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath the Earth's surface. |
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| A rock with large crystals scattered around much smaller crystals. |
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| a material formed form oxygen and silicon. |
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| small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things. |
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| the process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it. |
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| occurs when running water or wind loosen and carry away the fragments of rock. |
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| the process that presses sediments together. |
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| the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together. |
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| a sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together. |
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| forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers. |
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| when metamorphic rocks have their grains arranged in parallel layers or bands. From the Latin word "leaf". |
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| mineral grains are not arranged in plains or bands- random |
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| a series of processes on and beneath Earth's surface that slowly change rocks from one kind to another. |
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| city under the sea. Provides both food and shelter for many sea animals. |
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| reef close to the shore; separated by shallow water from land |
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| reef that lies farther out. |
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| A ring-shaped coral island found far from land; develops when coral grows on top of a volcanic island that has sunk below the ocean. |
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