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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
hardness
B
color
C
texture
D
streak
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
high-grade metamorphic
B
extrusive volcanic
C
fragmental sedimentary
D
intrusive igneous
3) Where are sedimentary rocks usually found?
A
covering most of the continents
B
below Earth's lithosphere
C
next to igneous intrusions
D
regions of recent volcanic activity
4) Which proecess(es) change(s) sediments into sedimentary rock?
A
compression and cementing
B
metamorphism
C
melting
D
extrusion and intrusion
5) Which kind of rock was formed mostly from the remains of living things?
A
breccia
B
coal
C
rock salt
D
shale
6) Some sedimentary rocks form as a direct result of
A
evaporation of seawater
B
erosion of solid rock
C
recrystallization just before melting
D
solidification of melted rock
7) How do metamorphic rocks differ from other rocks? Many metamorphic rocks
A
contain only one mineral
B
show banding
C
contain only dark, mafic minerals
D
have an organic origin
8) Which of the following changes does not help create a metamorphic rock?
A
intense heating without melting
B
compression within the Earth
C
melting and solidification
D
growth of mineral crystals
9) Igneous rock cannot change directly into
A
sediment
B
metamorphic rock
C
magma
D
sedimentary rock
10) Which of the following is often a characteristic of most igneous and some sedimentary rocks?
A
abundant fossils
B
visible crystals
C
flat layers
D
rounded grains
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