Rocks & Minerals

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

Which box is more dense?

• box B
• neither
• box A
• both have the same density

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

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

These fossils of sea creatures were found far above sea level in the upper layers of the Grand Canyon.  What can be concluded based on this finding?

• The sea creatures grew legs and crawled.
• There is not evidence that anything has changed.
• That area of the Grand Canyon used to be below sea level.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Fossils of the same animal are found on two different continents.  Which of the following can be inferred based on this finding?

• The climate has changed.
• The animals swam across the ocean.
• The continents have drifted apart.
• The wind carried the animals across the ocean.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What tool do you use to test a mineral's true color?

• water

• streak plate

• nail

• penlight