3.1 Rock Cycle Review (pre-quiz check)

According to the fossil record and age dating of rocks, how old is the Earth?

• 10,000 years old

• 4,000 years old

• 450 million years old

• 4.6 billion years old

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All rocks are made of minerals

• True

• False

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Where does the rock cycle start?

• Igneous

• Weathering & Erosion

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• None of these

What are the 3 major types of rocks?

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
• Metamorphic, Igneous, Cementation
• Brown, Red, Gray
• Streak, Hardness, Breakage

Each rock type can follow only one pathway of the rock cycle.

• True
• False

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This rock was found near the mouth of a volcano. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

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What do minerals and rocks BOTH have in common? (MUST click two)

• both are made of many minerals

• both are naturally occuring

• both are organic

• both have definite crystalline structures

• both are solids

Which two processes result in the formation of igneous rock?

• Burial and cementing
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition
• Recrystallization and cementation
• Melting and solidification

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Igneous rocks form_________(may be more than one right answer)

• On the Earth's Crust

• In the Earth's Crust

• Only on the crust

• Only in the crust

• None of these are right

When you watch a volcano erupt molten rock onto the surface of Earth's crust, you are seeing _____

• Lava

• Magma

• Mineral Crystals

• Igneous Rocks