You Rock!

What is a rock?

• a solid mass of one element

• a solid mass of frozen ice cream

• a naturally occurring solid mass of minerals

• cement

What does intrusive mean in geology?

• Moving inward from earth's crust

• Moving outward or ejected at Earth's surface

• Wearing away

• causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome or uninvited.

What does extrusive mean?

• Moving inward from earth's crust

• Wearing away

• Moving outward or ejected at Earth's surface

• causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome or uninvited.

What is erosion?

• Moving inward from earth's crust

• Layers are squeezed together and any water mixed in with the sediments is forced out.

• Moving outward or ejected at Earth's surface

• The process of wearing away by wind, water, or other natural agents.

Q. Rock that forms when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Intrusive Igneous

Q. The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• compaction and cementation
• melting and cooling

Q. A metamorphic rock can become ______.

• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• all of these

Q. Rock altered, changed, by pressure and heat

• sedimentary rock
• metamorphic
• igneous
• erosion

Q. The name rock is given when it is broken down into smaller pieces.

• metamorphic
• igneous
• sediment
• magma

Q. _______ rock forms from magma/lava cooling and hardening.

• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Igneous