Rocks (Not to be confused with The Rock) and Minerals

What are the 3 different types of rocks?

• Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic

• Igneous, Organic Clastic, Feldspar

• Grey, White, Brown

• Chemical Sedimentary, foliated, and nonfoliated

What type of rock forms when molten material cool and hardens? What characteristic can you use to determine how quickly it cooled down? 

• Sedimentary / The size of the mineral crystals in the rock,

• Metamorphic / The size of the metal crystals in the rock,

• Igneous / The size of the rocks in the minerals.

• Igneous / The size of the mineral crystals in the rock,

As lava cools and hardens, the rock it produces is referred to as?

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Extrusive Igneous Rock

• Intrusive Metamorphic Rock

• Extrusive Sedimentary Rock

Metamorphism results from a change in what?

• Heat and Acid Rain

• Mineral Structure

• Heat and Pressure

• Nothing. Rocks can't metamorphose

Rocks that form as magma cools and hardens within Earth’s interior are referred to as what?

• In the ground Rocks

• Sedimentary Rock

• Intrusive Igneous Rock

• Extrusive Igneous Rock

Sedimentary rocks form from what?

• Rocks and School Glue

• Sediments.

• Giant pieces of the rock and

• None of the responses

When minerals CEMENT sediments together, it is known as what?

• Concreting

• Cementation

• Gettin' sticky with it

• Glueing

Sedimentary rocks that contain plant material are what type of Sedimentary rocks?

• Sedimentary rocks with dead plants.

• Renewable Energy source

• Bioclastic Sedimentary Rocks

• Photosynthetic Sedimentary Rock.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that all minerals have in common?

• formed by natural process

• have a unique chemical makeup

• have a definite crystalline volume and shape

• Contains living cells

The mineral mica breaks evenly along flat sheets mainly because of its _________.

• internal atomic structure

• Internal arrangement of water molecules

• arrangement of the different sedimentary layers

• It looks way cooler that way