Minerals, Rocks, & The Rock Cycle

What are the 3 major types of rocks?

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary

• Metamorphic, Igneous, Limestone

• Brown, Red, Gray

• Streak, Hardness, Breakage

What kind of rock is produced when magma or lava cools?

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

True or False: Once a rock is sedimentary, it cannot become an igneous rock.

• True
• False

The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• erosion and deposition
• melting and cooling

Sedimentary rocks may contain fossils.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The three groups of rocks are classified by

• How they form
• Color
• Grain size
• Chemical Composition

When igneous rock breaks apart (weathers), it forms ___________.

• sedimentry rocks
• metamorphic rocks
• sediments
• crystals

The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• melting and cooling
• weathering and erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The process by which metamorphic rocks are formed...

• heat and pressure
• erosion and deposition
• melting and cooling

Rocks that form from colling magma inside Earth?

• Igneous intrusive

• Igneous extrusive

• Metamorphic foliated

• Metamorphic nonfoliated