Rocks Multiple Choice Test

What will need to happen in order for granite to become sedimentary rock?

What best supports a rock found on the beach is sedimentary?

Granite forms when magma slowly cools within the Earth. Basalt forms when lava cools on Earth's surface. What do granite and basalt have in common?

The breaking of rock because of weathering is what part of the rock cycle?

What do mudstone and sedimentary rocks have in common?

Whcih of the following is NOT a condition under which minerals form

Rocks forms deep inside Earth

form when sediments are compacted or cemented together by new minerals

formed by cooling magma below ground and cooling lava above ground

natural processes change one type of rock into another type of rock

rock that is identified by its visible layers

rock is often identified with very different appearances when they cool at different rates. Slow = large crystals and fast = small crystals

a solid made up of minerals

a solid with its atoms arranged in a repeating patterns

naturally occurring, inorganic, definite chemical composition and an orderly internal structure

rock is often identified by mineral crystals into parallel layers. These layers can show up as dark or light bands

All are the conditions under which minerals form EXCEPT

sedimentary rocks become metamorphic from ...

sediments become sedimentary rocks from...

Why does metamorphic rock rarely form at Earth's surface

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