Unit 1B Review

What processes can be used to complete the diagram of the rock cycle?

• A. 1 = cooling, 2 = weathering and erosion, 3 = pressure

• B. 1 = weathering and erosion, 2 = pressure, 3 = cooling

• C. 1 = weathering and erosion, 2 = cooling, 3 = pressure

• D. 1 = weathering and erosion, 2 = weathering and erosion, 3 = weathering and erosion

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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 not 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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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

• Igneous rocks cannot be remelted and form other igneous rocks

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A student used a magnifying lens to examine two different rocks. Which crystals most likely formed from molten material that cooled rapidly?

• crystals in rock 1, because large grains usually form on Earth's surface

• crystals in rock 2, because small grains usually form on Earth's surface

• Crystals in rock 1, because large grains usually form deep within Earth

• crystals in rock 2, because small grains usually form deep within Earth

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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Sedimentary rocks are formed near

• water sources

• converging plates

• diverging plates

• transform boundaries

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Shale is a rock formed when silt is compacted together. When shale is buried and experiences heat and pressure, it becomes slate. What type of change occurs in this process?

• Metamorphic rock becomes sedimentary rock.

• Metamorphic rock becomes new metamorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock becomes metamorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock becomes new sedimentary rock.

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Which layer of the Earth is the only liquid layer?

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

What layer is a semisolid and acts like a plastic?

• Lithosphere

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• crust

The oceanic crust is made of?

• the thickest crust

• the densest crust

• molten rock

• Water

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