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What process causes metamorphic rock to form sedimentary rocks?
a) Weathering and Erosion to sediments, which then can form sedimentary rocks
b) Compacting and Cementation
c) Heat and Pressure
d) Transport and Deposition

What type of rock contains large crystals?
a) Extrusive Igneous
b) Intrusive Igneous
c) Sedimentary
d) Metamorphic

How does metamorphic rock form magma?
a) Deposition
b) Cementing
c) Melting
d) Erosion

What type of rock is formed by extreme heat and pressure?
a) Metamorphic
b) Sedimentary
c) Intrusive Igneous
d) Extrusive Igneous

All rocks are made by one or more _____?
a) Minerals
b) Atoms
c) Diamonds
d) Gold

In heat and pressure, limestone turns into ____?
a) Hard limestone
b) Sand
c) Obsidian
d) Marble

What color are felsic rocks typicallly?
a) Dark
b) Light
c) Pink
d) Red

How are metamorphic rocks classified?
a) Foliated
b) Nonfoliated
c) Foliation
d) Heat and Pressure

What type of rock is an obsidian?
a) Mafic
b) Sedimentary
c) Felsic
d) Metamorphic

What process causes sediments to form sedimentary rocks?
a) Compacting and Cementing
b) Weathering and Erosion
c) Heat and Pressure
d) Transport and Deposition

How do intrusive igneous rocks form?
a) A fast process of cooling
b) Compacting and Cementation
c) Heat and Pressure
d) A slow process of cooling

How does igneous rock form metamorphic rock?
a) Compacting and Cementing
b) Heating and Cooling
c) Melting
d) Extreme Heat and Pressure

Which is a way to form igneous rock?
a) Melting sedimentary rock which then can form magma, which can form igneous rocks.
b) Melting
c) Cementing
d) Magic

What type of rock is granite?
a) Igneous
b) Sedimentary
c) Metamorphic
d) Mineral

What type of rock is conglomerate?
a) Igneous
b) Nonclastic Sedimentary
c) Clastic Sedimentary
d) Metamorphic

What type of rock is gneiss?
a) Metamorphic
b) Igneous
c) Clastic Sedimentary
d) Nonclastic Sedimentary

What type of rock is rock is sandstone?
a) Nonclastic Sedimentary
b) Metamorphic
c) Igneous
d) Clastic Sedimentary

What type of rock is marble?
a) Metamorphic
b) Sedimentary
c) Igneous
d) Mineral

How is igneous rock classified?
a) Texture and Composition
b) Color
c) Texture
d) Composition

How is sedimentary rock classified?
a) Nonclastic
b) Clastic
c) Nonclastic and Clastic
d) Color

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