Rock Vocabulary Quiz

What are made out of minerals?

• erosion

• rocks

• weathering

• cast

What is solid, formed in nature, was never alive and the same material through out the entire object?

• rock

• clay

• weathering

• mineral

Magma that has cooled and hardened, creates a type of rock. What is the name of that type of rock?

• mineral

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

When rocks are changed by heat and pressure they become what type of rock?

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• igneous

• mineral

Rocks that are created from weathered, eroded rocks and other materials, plus they settle in layers are called?

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

• mineral

What do you call the process of rocks changing into other types of rocks?

• life cycle

• system

• erosion

• rock cycle

Something that was created from living things that died a long time ago?

• fossils

• minerals

• rocks

• weathering

Loose material that plants can grow in?

• rocks

• minerals

• fossils

• soil

What do you call the shape of an animal or plant left in sediments when the rock formed?

• mold

• soil

• clay

• sand