Quiz: Rock Cycle

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

• Igneous rocks
• Metamorphic rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

What is the type of rock that forms when particles of rock and other materials are compacted and cemented together?

• Metamorphic rocks
• Igneous rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

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

• Metamorphic rocks
• Igneous rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?

• Biologist
• Geologist
• Chemist
• Physicist

Over millions of years the three types of rock continually change from one kind into another. What is this process called?

• Rock Cycle
• Life Cycle
• Bicycle
• Water Cycle

Erosion and Deposition on the Earth's surface help to form what type of rock?

• Metamorphic rocks
• Igneous rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

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

• Intrusive
• Extrusive

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

• Intrusive
• Extrusive

When sediment is moved by wind or water and dropped in a particular spot, what TWO processes are happening? (select 2 answers)

• weathering
• compaction
• transport
• deposition

Is the process of rocks changing from one type to another slow or fast?

• slow
• fast