Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonic Test Review

What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?

• Rift Valley
• Mid-Ocean Ridge
• Island Arc
• Flat land

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What is Earth's thickest layer?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

What processes causes tectonic plates move?

• mountain building

• earthquakes

• convection currents

• water cycle

• subduction zones

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What must happen to a sedimentary rock in order for it to change into an igneous rock?

• It must be weathered and eroded.

• It must melt, then cool and harden.

• It must become cemented to other rocks.

• It must be put under pressure until new minerals form in it.

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The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

• Weathering

• Compaction

• Foliation

• Deposition

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Why do metamorphic rocks rarely contain fossils?

• These rocks are formed underwater, and the water dissolves the fossils.

• The rock formation occurs from extremely hot magma deep inside the crust where organisms do no live.

• These rocks undergo extremely high pressure or temperature changes when formed, which would destroy fossils.

• These rocks are usually formed from extremely hot magma or with severe lava explosions, which would destroy fossils.

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What is the only liquid layer of the Earth?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

Which of the following is a true statement about the rock cycle?

• Heat, pressure, cooling, weathering, erosion, and deposition change rock.

• The formation of rock within the cycle ends after metamorphic rocks form.

• Weathering occurs in igneous rocks but never in sedimentary or metamorphic.

• The rock cycle creates new rocks and destroys old rock

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Which of these is NOT a way to form a sedimentary rock?

• Compaction from layers of sediment piling up on each other

• Heat and pressure from deep in the Earth

• Chemical deposits being left behind from an ancient ocean

• Cementation from water and mud

Which of the following is the series of geologic processes that can transform magma into granite, granite into sand and sand into sandstone? (be sure your answer is in the correct order)

• melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• cooling; weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing

• weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling

• weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; heat and pressure

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