Rock Cycle Quiz

What is the process by which rock is broken into fragments called sediments?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Igneous Rock

Rock that forms when pressure and heat change existing rock.

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Rock Cycle

When weathering breaks rocks into pieces, what do we call those smaller pieces?

• texture
• weathering
• sediment
• erosion

_______ rock forms from magma/lava

• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Igneous

The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.

• weathering

• Uplift

• Deposition

• Erosion

This process changes rocks to magma.

• melting

• cooling and crystallizing

• weathering and erosion

• heat and pressure

This process takes sediments and changes them to sedimentary rock.

• weathering and erosion

• compacting and cementing

• heat and pressure

• melting

Heat and pressure create this type of rock.

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• sediments

This process changes magma into igneous rock.

• weathering and erosion

• melting

• heat and pressure

• cooling and crystallizing

How would an igneous rock become sedimentary?

• weathering, erosion, deposition then compacting and cementing

• melting then cooling and crystallizing

• heat and pressure

• melting then weathering and erosion