Types of Rocks and the Rock Cycle

What is the series of processes that slowly change Earth's rocks from one kind to another?

• Volcanic cycle

• Weathering cycle

• Rock cycle

• Water cycle

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Plate movements can form what substance that is the source of igneous rocks?

• sediment

• pressure

• silt

• magma

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What kind of rock is formed by heat and pressure beneath the earth?

• shale

• metamorphic rock

• minerals

• igneous rock

What process in the rock cycle changes a metamorphic rock into magma?

• deposition

• melting

• pressure

• cementation

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What process allows sediment to pile up on the ocean floor?

• deposition

• erosion

• water erosion

• wind erosion

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The process that breaks down granite into sediment is called deposition

• True

• False

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There are many pathways by which rocks move through the rock cycle.

• True

• False

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Metamorphic rocks are foliated if their mineral grains are arranged randomly.

• True

• False

Heat and pressure changes the sedimentary rock shale into slate.

• True

• False

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Metamorphic rock can form out of other metamorphic rock.

• True

• False