Types of Rocks and Fossils Review

How many major types of rock are there?

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four

Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?

• Fossil
• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic

True or False: If fossils are deeper in the ground, they are older than fossils closer to the surface.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

True or False: Fossils can help us study what life is like in the past.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What type of rock forms when rocks are buried and heat and/or pressure causes the rock to change into a new rock?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Lava

What type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and hardens?

• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Lava

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

constantly broken apart by freezing and thawing, plant roots, acid, and other forces on rock

• weathering

• erosion

• compaction

• cementation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Identify this type of rock. 

• metamorphic 
• igneous
• sedimentary
• fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer is the oldest?

• Layer F

• Layer C

• Layer A

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which layer is the youngest?

• Layer G

• Layer F

• Layer A

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4