The Ultimate Rock Cycle Question Preview (ID: 34260)


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What do the size, shape, and position of the grains that make up a rock determine?
a) the rock's size
b) the rocks color
c) the rocks texture
d) the rocks composition

A rock deep underground is primarily affected by forces of ..
a) extreme heat and pressure
b) pressure only
c) weathering and erosion
d) heat only

What is the chemical makeup, or mineral content, of a rock based on?
a) the size of its grains
b) the position of its grains
c) the shape of its grains
d) the composition

Scientist study rock using what important feature?
a) elevation
b) composition and texture
c) the pressure in which they were formed
d) the depth in which they were formed

A rock at the Earth's surface is primarily affected by forces of..
a) weathering and erosion
b) cooling
c) heat and pressure
d) pressure only

A large, irregular-shaped intrusive body of intrusive igneous rock is called
a) sill
b) dikes
c) batholith
d) pluton

The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock is called..
a) deposition
b) erosion
c) rock cycle
d) compaction

A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter is called
a) an atom
b) a rock
c) a compound
d) an element

What kind of rock forms when hot liquid magma, cools and solidifies?
a) sedimentary
b) extrusive igneous
c) intrusive igneous
d) metamorphic

What factors can affect the texture of an igneous rock?
a) the minerals that cement the rock together
b) the size of the rock
c) the pressure and temperature the the rock was exposed to
d) the length and time the magma had to cool

The process in which water, wind, ice, and heat break down rock is called..
a) erosion
b) weathering
c) deposition
d) uplift

When sediment is deposited in bodies of water or other low lying areas is called..
a) uplift
b) erosion
c) deposition
d) compaction

Movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earths surface is called..
a) uplift
b) erosion
c) weathering
d) sediment

The process by which sediment is removed from its source is called..
a) weathering
b) erosion
c) uplift
d) ground shift

The process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers is called
a) layering
b) mud cracking
c) ripple marks
d) stratification

When sediment is deposited in layers and compacted is called..
a) igneous rock
b) sedimentary rock
c) metamorphic rock
d) cement

Sheetlike intrusions that lie parallel to previous rock units are called..
a) batholith
b) dikes
c) sills
d) pltons

Igneous rock that forms from lava onto Earth's surface is called..
a) Intrusive igneous rock
b) extrusive igneous rock
c) metamorphic rock
d) sedimentary rock

Which kind of rock has fossils?
a) metamorphic
b) extrusive igneous
c) sedimentary
d) intrusive igneous

Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize out of solution, such as sea water is called..
a) organic sedimentary rock
b) clasic sedimentary rock
c) chemical sedimentary rock
d) fossiliferous rock

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