Rock Types

What type of rocks can form on or beneath Earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Granite

What type of rock is created when magma or lava cools and crystallizes?

• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

Sedimentary rocks may contain fossils.

• True
• False

small, solid pieces of materials from rocks or living things

• sediment
• clastic rock
• organic rock
• deposition

Wind and water have eroded this rock to show the layers of sediment that were laid down millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

The process when rocks break into smaller pieces due to exposure to natural elements is called _?_.

• erosion
• weathering
• sediments

This rock formed when bits of other rocks became pressed into a solid. What type of rock is it?

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock

This rock was formed when molten rock cooled into a solid. What type of rock is it?

• Igneous Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Sedimentary Rock

This rock started as molten magma. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic

This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. The sediments were compacted and cemented together. What type of rock is this?

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic