CHAPTER 3 LESSON 2 SYSTEM INTERACTIONS

3.2 INFORMATION

C. ROCK CYCLE The series of processes that transport and continually change rocks into different forms.

C. CRYSTALIZATION When magma or lava cools and crystallizes, it becomes igneous rock.

C. UPLIFT The process that moves large bodies of Earth materials to higher elevations.

C. WEATHERING The process by which glaciers, wind, water, and the activities of organisms break down rock into sediments.

C. EROSION the process by which glaciers, wind, or water carry sediments to new locations.

C. COMPACTION The weight of upper layers of sediments pushes down on underlying sediment layers.

C. CEMENTATION Water surrounding the sediments often contains dissolved minerals,

C. CEMENTATION Which crystallize, and cement the sediments together, forming sedimentary rock.

C. METAMORPHIC Metamorphic rock forms when any kind of rock is subject to high temperatures and pressures deep below Earth’s surface.