Rock Cycle and Tectonic Plates

Multiple Choice

What is the rock cycle?

• The process by which rocks are broken down, recycled, and formed into other rocks.

• The process by which the tectonic plates shift, form new landforms, and cause earthquakes.

• The process by which rain, wind, and ice crystalize sediments into new rocks.

• The process by which heat and pressure weather and erode sediments into new rocks

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What are the three types of rocks?

• oceanic, continental, tectonic

• igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary

• Ignatius, metamorphism, solidification

• folding, faulting, subduction

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What drives the rock cycle?

• movement of oceanic currents

• movement of wind and water

• movement of tectonic plates

• movement of molten rock and the mantle

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What is subduction?

• One tectonic plate breaking up and forming two new ones.

• One tectonic plate being pushed under another.

• One tectonic plate colliding with another.

• One tectonic plate rising from the oceanic crust to the continental crust.

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What happens to the lower plate during subduction?

• It is pushed into the core and becomes iron.

• The heat and pressure turns it to metamorphic rock.

• It breaks into chunks that join other plates.

• It is pushed into the mantle and melted.

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Which process forms sediments?

• weathering + erosion

• Compaction + cementation

• melting + crystallization

• heat + pressure

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Which process changes metamorphic rock into igneous rock?

• weathering + erosion

• Compaction + cementation

• melting + crystallization

• heat + pressure

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Which process changes igneous rock into metamorphic rock?

• weathering + erosion

• Compaction + cementation

• melting + crystallization

• heat + pressure

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Which process changes sediments into sedimentary rock?

• weathering + erosion

• Compaction + cementation

• melting + crystallization

• heat + pressure

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Which process changes rock into magma or lava?

• erosion

• Compaction

• melting

• heat + pressure

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What is the process of cooling rock?

• lithification

• cementation

• crystallization

• compaction