Rocks and minerals test

What geologic process changes pieces of rocks, minerals and other materials into sedimentary rocks?

• Compacting and Cementing
• Cooling
• Heat and Pressure
• Melting

What characteristic is common in metamorphic rocks?

• Fossils
• Foliations or layers
• Gas Bubbles
• Glassy Surface

What geologic process can change granite (igneous rock) into gneiss (metamorphic rock)?

• Compacting and cementing
• Cooling 
• Heat and pressure
• Melting

What type of rock is formed from slow cooling magma UNDER the earth's surface?

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sediment

Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale (sedimentary rock), shale into slate (metamorphic), and slate into magma

• Cooling; Melting; Heat and Pressure

• Compacting and cementing; heat and pressure; melting

• Melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling

Which characteristic is found only in sedimentary rocks?

• Fossils

• Crystals

• Gas Bubbles

• Glassy Surface

Which characteristic is common to EXTRUSIVE igneous rocks?

• Crystals

• Fossils

• Glassy surface

• Ribbonlike layers

Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform magma into granite (igneous rock), granite into sand (sediment), and sand into sandstone (sedimentary rock).

• Cooling; weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing

• Melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing;

• Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; heat and pressure

A natural mixture of minerals.

• erosion
• magma
• alloys
• rock

Extrusive forms _________crystals

• small
• large