Types of Rocks

The three types or categories of rocks are?

• Volcanic, Plutonic, Sediment

• Extrusive, Volcanic, Igneous

• Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

• Metamorphic, Magma, Crystals

True or False: Rocks are made up of one or more mineral and/or organic matter?

• True

• False

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If you were a scientists that studied the Earth and Rocks, you would be called?

• an Astronomer

• an Engineer

• a Biologist

• a Geologist

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The category that a rock belongs to, tells us how that rock was made - True or False?

• True

• False

Sedimentary rocks are made up of -

• tiny particles of living and non-living things called sediment.

• magma

• heat and pressure

• weathering over time

What MUST be present in order for sedimentary rocks to form?

• windy weather

• magma or lava

• heat and pressure

• water

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True/False: Sometimes sedimentary rocks get pushed into the Earth and are around pressure or heat and will change into a metamorphic rock?

• True

• False

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Metamorphic rocks are made when a rock goes through -

• Mix with lava

• Water and ice exposure

• A lot of heat or pressure

• Weathering phase

Metamorphic rocks MUST have what in-order to form?

• heat and pressure

• water

• magma

• weathering

Metamorphic rocks are rocks that go through -

• water

• heat

• change

• weathering