Entrance Ticket: The Rock Cycle

What are rocks made of?

• soil

• minerals

• sand

• mud

How are rocks classified?

• by composition shape, color and texture

• by mass, weight and density

• by shape, color and mass

• by texture, size and color

It is the molten or semi-molten natural material found beneath the Earth's crust from which all igneous rocks are formed.

• lava

• magma

What kind of rock is formed from lava that cools and solidifies on the Earth’s surface?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• conglomerate rock

Which type of rock can weather to form sediments? (Check 3)

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• conglomerate rock

What kind of rock is formed under high temperature and pressure?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

Sediments turned into sedimentary rock when they were compacted and ________________.

• cemented

• cooled

• deposited

• melted

Which process forms sediments?

• cementation

• compaction

• deposition

• weathering

What forces change a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock?

• cold temperature

• erosion

• heat and pressure

• weathering

Which of the following processes are part of the rock cycle? (Check 3)

• compacting and cementing

• convection and radiation

• melting and cooling

• weathering and erosion