Rock Types

What material is used to form igneous rocks?

• magma
• sand
• gravel
• fossils

What process is used to form sedimentary rocks?

• Lava cools and hardens to form a rock.
• Bits of sand and gravel form layers that turn into rock from pressure.
• Extreme heat and pressure from inside the Earth turn rocks into new rocks.
• Magma trapped under the Earth's surface cools and solidifies.

Which of the words below describe mud, sand, and tiny bits of rocks that cement together to form a type of rock?

• stalactites
• magmas
• metamorphs
• sediments

What process is used to form metamorphic rocks?

• Lava cools and hardens to form a rock.
• Bits of sand and gravel form layers that turn into rock from pressure.
• Extreme heat and pressure from inside the Earth turn rocks into new rocks.

What type of rock can turn into a metamorphic rock?

• Igneous only
• Sedimentary only
• Metamorphic only
• Any type of rock

Which type of rock would you expect to find by a volcano?

• Ingenious
• Igneous
• Indigenous 
• Indigo 

How are all rocks related to one another based upon the rock cycle diagram?

• Igneous rocks only come from sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

• Sedimentary rocks cannot make other sedimentary rocks

• All rocks can create any other type of rock

• Heat and pressure must be applied to make sedimentary rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the rock cycle?

• molten rock that is stored underground.

• rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

• a process that changes one type of rock into another type of rock.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The cooled and hardened lava from volcanoes forms what rock type? (Basalt and Obsidian are examples)

• extrusive igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• intrusive igneous

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main types of rocks?

• igneous

• crystalline

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4