Rock Cycle

What are the 3 major types of rocks?

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
• Metamorphic, Igneous, Cementation
• Brown, Red, Gray
• Streak, Hardness, Breakage

What is it called when rock changes from one type to another?

• rock and roll

• rock cycle

• Rock drift

• rock tectonics

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What are the two types of weathering?

• Mechanical and Physical
• Mechanical and Chemical
• Chemical and Abrasion
• There's more than two types

Salt water weathering rocks by dissolving pieces of it over time is an example of ....

• Chemical Weathering
• Mechanical Weathering

Wind abrasion (wind blowing sand against something) is an example of _______ weathering.

• Chemical
• Mechanical

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Which is the process that breaks up rock on Earth’s surface?

• deposition

• melting

• compaction

• weathering

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To be classified as a mineral, a substance must satisfy this

requirement

• have a definite chemical composition

• naturally occurring

• be a solid

• all the above

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Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is called

• Erosion
• Deposition
• Compaction
• Weathering

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What two processes make sediment?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Weathering & Erosion

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Which statement correctly describes the rock cycle?

• Igneous rock can only form by heat and pressure

• Metamorphic rock can only form by crystallization.

• Magma can only form by com[action and cementation.

• Sedimentary rocks form by deposition, burial, and compaction of weathered particles and dissolved chemicals.

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