Rocks and Minerals Test

What type of rock forms from cementation and compaction close to or on earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of rock forms from heat and pressure deep inside earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock forms from lava that has cooled at or near earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the geological process by which rocks are formed, destroyed, or altered?

• continental drift
• plate tectonics
• water cycle
• rock cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which of the following is a physical property of minerals?

• luster
• reactivity
• oxidation
• flammability

Fossils are sometimes found in which type of rock?  (Fossils can only survive this rock's process of formation.)

• intrusive igneous
• extrusive igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What process is occurring at point A on the diagram of the rock cycle? 

• Heat and Pressure
• Cooling 
• Weathering and Erosion 
• Cementation and Compaction 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the MAIN way rocks are classified?

• Their color and shapes
• How they form
• Mineral bands
• Where they form

Which type of igneous rock forms above the Earth's surface and cools quickly forming SMALL crystals? 

• Intrusive Igneous Rock
• Foliated Rock
• Nonfoliated Rock
• Extrusive Igneous Rock

The color of a mineral in powder form is called the mineral's 

• hardness
• specific gravity
• luster
• streak