Rocks and Minerals TEST

What is the process of sediment being buried and pressed together?

• compaction

• caption

• cementation

• concoction

What is the ability to make things move or change?

• eccentric

• emotion

• exact

• energy

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What is the movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind and flowing water?

• energy

• weathering

• work

• erosion

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The rock type that forms when magma cools and becomes solid is

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

• marble

Hot liquid rock below the Earth's surface is called

• metamorphic

• sediment

• igneous

• magma

Anything that has mass and takes up space is

• matter

• mass

• weight

• energy

Which type of rock is formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• marble

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One of the different types of matter that makes up rock is

• matter

• mineral

• money

• music

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

A small part, such as a rock from a mountain, that is meant to show what the whole is like is

• atom

• rock formation

• sample

• mineral

Small pieces of rock are

• magma

• grains

• sediment

• particles