Rocks NYS ESRT Review

What is a texture for an Intrusive Igneous Rock?

• Vesicular

• Very Coarse

• Glassy

• Fine

What Clastic Rock has a grain size of 0.004 cm?

• Conglomerate

• Breccia

• Sandstone

• Siltstone

• Dolostone

What kind of Texture can be found in Foliated Metamorphic Rock?

• Glassy

• Mineral Alignment

• Vesicular

• Fine to Medium

What rock is monomineralic, composed on intergrown crystals, and resulted from the process of evaporation?

• Dunite

• Quartzite

• Coal

• Rock Gypsum

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is one difference between the igneous rocks Rhyolite and Granite?

• Composition

• Density

• Color

• Crystal Size

Which rock is composed out of visible angular sediments that are cemented and compacted together?

• Breccia

• Sandstone

• Dolostone

• Gneiss

What kind of Metamorphic Rocks would form at Point A in the Rock Diagram?

• Limestone

• Marble

• Gneiss

• Gabbro

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

How is a Mafic Igneous Rock different from a Felsic Igneous Rock?

• It is more dense

• It is darker in color

• It is rich in Fe and Mg

• All the above

It you were to find a rock with cemented shell fragments what would you classify it as?

• Clastic Sedimentary

• Nonfoliated Metamorphic

• Bioclastic Sedimentary

• Crystalline Sedimentary

You found a rock that has random inter grown crystals the size of 4 mm and contains only Pyroxene and Olivine. What is it?

• Gabbro

• Granite

• Peridotite

• Dunite