The Rock Cycle

What type of rock is formed when molten magma from within the Earth cools and solidifies?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

Erosion, weathering, compaction, cementation that take place on the Earth's surface help to form what type of rock?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of rock forms when heat and pressure beneath the Earth's surface is applied to an existing rock?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

The process of rocks changing from one type to another is a ______ process.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Magma cooling on the Earth's surface forms what type of rocks?

• intrusive igneous

• extrusive igneous

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Magma cooling below Earth's surface forms what type of rock?

• extrusive igneous

• intrusive igneous

If a rock has air bubbles it was cooled _______.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

If a rock has crystal is it cooled _________.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Over millions of years the 3 types of rocks continually change from one kind to another, this process is called ___________.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When sediment is moved by wind or water and dropped in a particular spot what 2 processes are happening?

• deposition and cementation

• compaction and cemetation

• transport and deposition

• transport and compaction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2