This Quiz Rocks

The continuous process in which rocks are changed from one type of rock to another type of rock.

• The Rock Cycle

• Magma

• Igneous Rocks

• The Water Cycle

What type of rocks are formed deep inside the Earth's crust from intense heat and pressure?

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Metamorphic Rocks

• Igneous Rocks

What types of rocks are formed after weathering and over time they cement together to form into one rock?

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Metamorphic Rocks

• Igneous Rocks

What are examples of Igneous Rocks?

• They can have fossils in them, have a dusty feel, made up of other types of rocks

• They have rings/layers, made up of sedimentary and igneous rocks through heat and pressure, has crystals.

• They are cooled lava.

What are examples of Metamorphic Rocks?

• They can have fossils in them, have a dusty feel, made up of other types of rocks

• They have layers formed through heat and pressure.

• They can look glassy or have air bubbles, no visible minerals

What are examples of Sedimentary Rocks?

• They can have fossils in them, and are compacted sediment.

• They have rings/layers, made up of sedimentary and igneous rocks through heat and pressure, has crystals.

• They can look glassy or have air bubbles, no visible minerals

Weathering and erosion cause...

• rocks to crumble into small pieces.

• the wearing down of mountains and canyons.

• sediment formation.

• all of these.

What are the 3 types of rock? Select all that apply.

• Metamorphic

• Basalt

• Igneous

• Slate

• Sedimentary

The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces is:

• foliation.

• erosion

• deposition.

• weathering.

What must happen to a sedimentary rock in order for it to change into an igneous rock?

• It must be weathered and eroded.

• It must melt, then cool and harden.

• It must become cemented to other rocks.

• It must be put under pressure until new minerals form in it