Rock Cycle Test Review

The process in which a rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed and forms again by geological processes that is never ending.

• Rock Cycle

• Rock

• 3 types of rocks

• Erosion

How could a rock turn into soil and sediment?

• I could not.

• Wind, weathering, and erosion

• A tiny man cones along and smashes rocks with a hammer.

A SEDIMENTARY rock is formed when:

• Magma, under the earth, or on the surface cools into rock.

• Many different layers and sediment are deposited, compacted, and cemented together.

• A rock is under extreme heat and pressure.

A METAMORPHIC rock is formed when:

• Magma, under the earth, or on the surface cools into rock.

• A rock is under extreme heat and pressure.

• Many different layers and sediment are compacted and cemented together.

One type of rock can become other type of rock.

• True

• False

Only water can change the shape of the land.

• True

• False

The Rock Cycle only has one path.

• True

• False

______ type of rock forms from ERUPTING volcanoes.

• Extrusive Igneous

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Intrusive Igneous

Extrusive Igneous rock is found:

• Inside the Earth

• Under the Earth

• Outside of the Earth

What geological process changes pieces of rock, minerals, and other material into SEDIMENTARY rock?

• Heat and Pressure

• Deposition, compaction, and cementing.

• Melting