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The Rock Cycle

Directions: Match the rock cycle vocabulary word with the definition and write it in the correct boxes on the puzzle.
Horizontales
Tighter packing of sedimentary grains causing weak lithification and a decrease in porosity, usually from the weight of overlying sediment.
Alteration of the minerals and textures of a rock by changes in temperature and pressure, and/or grain or loss of chemical components.
A structurally high area in the crust, produced by movements that raise the rocks, as in a broad dome or arch.
Molten rock, generally a silicate melt with suspended crystals and dissolved gases.
The processes that carry sediment or other materials away from their point of origin, such as wind, water, and mantle convection currents.
Material (such as gravel, sand, mud, and lime) that is transported and deposited by wind, water, ice, or gravity; deposits of organic origin.
Verticales
The process by which clastic sediment is lithified by precipitation of mineral cement among the grains of the sediment.
The processes by which sediment is converted into sedimentary rock. These processes include cementation and compaction.
To go from a solid state to a liquid state.
The processes by which rocks are chemically altered or physically broken into fragments as a result of exposure to atmospheric agents and the pressures and temperatures at or near Earth's surface, with little or no transportation of the loosened or altered materials.
The settling of materials out of a transporting medium.
The force per unit of area exerted upon something, such as on a surface.
The processes that loosen sediment and move it from one place to another on Earth's surface. Agents include water, ice, wind, and gravity.