Review Of Rocks 2 Question Preview (ID: 32837)


This Test Helps Students Review All Three Types Of Rocks, The Processes Necessary To Form Each Rock, And The Rock Cycle. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

When sediments are laid down or dropped on Earth's surface it is called ________.
a) Weathering
b) Erosion
c) Deposition
d) Pressure

When rocks are broken down into small pieces it is called ____________.
a) Weathering
b) Erosion
c) Deposition
d) Pressure

When sediment is moved from one location to another by wind or water it is called _______________.
a) Weathering
b) Erosion
c) Deposition
d) Pressure

If a rock has NO crystals it is because it has ______________.
a) eroded away and become a sedimentary rock.
b) cooled quickly as an extrusive igneous rock.
c) cooled slowly as an intrusive igneous rock.
d) been buried by heat and pressure and become a metamorphic rock.

When a rock becomes metamorphic, what kind of rock could it have been before that?
a) metamorphic
b) igneous
c) sedimentary
d) All of the above

The size, shape, and position of the grains in a rock.
a) composition
b) texture
c)
d)

The minerals that make up a rock make up its chemical ______________.
a) composition
b) texture
c)
d)

Conglomerate or Breccia are both types of ___________________ rock.
a) igneous
b) metamorphic
c) sedimentary
d) none of the above

Granite and Obsidian are both types of _______________ rock.
a) igneous
b) metamorphic
c) sedimentary
d) none of the above

Gneiss and marble are both types of ___________ rock.
a) igneous
b) metamorphic
c) sedimentary
d) none of the above

What is the difference between lava and magma?
a) Nothing, they are both molten rock.
b) Lava is extrusive, magma is intrusive.
c) Lava is intrusive, magma is extrusive.
d) They are totally different types of molten material.

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