Rock and Mineral Review

Rocks that used to be other rocks but have undergone heat and pressure to make them new rocks:

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• any of these

Rocks that are made of sediments are called:

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• any of these

What is the general term for rocks that cool and harden ABOVE the earth's surface?

• chemical

• extrusive

• intrusive

• organic

Which Igneous rocks are made from magma and cool underground?

• intrusive

• chemical

• organic

• extrusive

What is the process when minerals dissolve, seep through spaces of sediment, then recrystallize

• cementation

• compaction

• erosion

• deposition

What type of sedimentary rock is made from other rock fragments?

• chemical

• organic

• clastic

• intrusive

What type of sedimentary rock is made from the remains of once living things?

• chemical

• clastic

• organic

• intrusive

When grains of a metamorphic rock are arranged in parallel layers, what is that called?

• chemical

• foliated

• non-foliated

• organic

The process that changes rock from one type to another is called what?

• rock cycle

• mineral cycle

• water cycle

• calvin cycle

A mineral is (pick all that apply

• solid

• natually occurring

• a liquid

• inorganic