Rocks and minerals Test CP

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Extrusive Igneous
• Intrusive Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Sediment

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

A natural mixture of minerals.

• erosion
• magma
• alloys
• rock

Extrusive rocks that form quickly above the Earths surface have

• small crystals
• large crystals
• small and large crystals
• no crystals

Coarse or Fine

• coarse
• fine

Sedimentary rock type made from bits of minerals and other Earth material that were weathered and moved is _?_ sedimentary rock.

• clastic
• chemical
• organic