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Test Description: Rock ID are formation using NYS ESRT
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What type of rock forms from heat and pressure?
A
metamorphic
B
igneous
C
sandstone
D
sedimentary
2) What type of rock forms from compaction and cementation?
A
marble
B
obsidian
C
granite
D
sandstone
3) What type of rock is formed from explosive volcanos?
A
extrusive igneous
B
contact metamorphic
C
regional metamorphic
D
intrusive igneous
4) Where are fossils most likely found?
A
conglomerate
B
slate
C
limestone
D
granite
5) Dolomite forms from mineral precipatates cemented and compacted. Where does dolomite form?
A
deep under the surface of the earth
B
deep under the sea
C
from volcanic action
D
alone a sea shore
6) According to the ESRT, what type of rocks are found on Mt. Marcy?
A
devonian ages igneous rocks
B
dominantly sedimentary
C
shale and sandstones
D
intensely metamorphosed
7) According to the ESRT, What minerals make up granite?
A
olivine only
B
Potassium feldspar, quartz, biotite, and amphibole
C
Plagioclase feldspare, biotite, and amphibole
D
Pyroxene, feldspare, anf olivine
8) Quartzite is a metamorphic rock that formed from what type of sedimentary rock?
A
limestone
B
shale
C
sandstone
D
coal
9) How does vesicular basalt form?
A
mineral precipates deep in the sea
B
quick cooling lava from explosive volcanos
C
slow cooling magma deep within the earth
D
heat and pressure from magma intrusions
10) How does coal form?
A
santa makes it at the north pole for bad girls and boy who don\'t study for Earth Science test
B
slowly decaying plant material (peat) are trapped between layers of rock and compressed
C
high grade metamorphic minerals are segregated into bands
D
precipitates of shell fragments are cemented together
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