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Rocks, Minerals And Fossils 3
Test Description: Basic questions about rocks, minerals, and fossils.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which characteristic of igneous rock provides the most information about how it formed?
A
color
B
hardness
C
streak
D
texture
2) A group of students was traveling when they found dinosaur bones in a rock outcrop along a highway. What kind of rock probably contained the dinosaur bones?
A
fragmental sedimentary
B
high-grade metamorphic
C
intrusive igneous
D
extrusive volcanic
3) Where are sedimentary rocks usually found?
A
next to igneous intrusions
B
covering most of the continents
C
regions of recent volcanic activity
D
below Earth's lithosphere
4) Which proecess(es) change(s) sediments into sedimentary rock?
A
compression and cementing
B
melting
C
metamorphism
D
extrusion and intrusion
5) Which kind of rock was formed mostly from the remains of living things?
A
shale
B
coal
C
breccia
D
rock salt
6) Some sedimentary rocks form as a direct result of
A
erosion of solid rock
B
recrystallization just before melting
C
evaporation of seawater
D
solidification of melted rock
7) How do metamorphic rocks differ from other rocks? Many metamorphic rocks
A
contain only dark, mafic minerals
B
have an organic origin
C
show banding
D
contain only one mineral
8) Which of the following changes does not help create a metamorphic rock?
A
compression within the Earth
B
intense heating without melting
C
melting and solidification
D
growth of mineral crystals
9) Igneous rock cannot change directly into
A
magma
B
sediment
C
sedimentary rock
D
metamorphic rock
10) Which of the following is often a characteristic of most igneous and some sedimentary rocks?
A
abundant fossils
B
flat layers
C
visible crystals
D
rounded grains
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