Rocks

Match the following

• Metamorphic Rocks

• From from pre-existing rocks being exposed to heat and pressure

• Sedimentary Rocks

• Form from the cooling and crystallization of magma

• Igneous Rocks

• Form from sediments being compacted and cemented together

What type of rock would fossils most likely be found in?

• Extrusive Igneous Rocks

• Intrusive Igneous Rocks

• Foliated Metamorphic Rocks

• Sedimentary Rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What type of rock is pictured?

• Extrusive Igneous Rock

• Foliated Metamorphic Rock

• Nonfoliated Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

What word is used to describe an igneous rock with holes or pores?

• Foliated

• Vesicular

• Biochemical

• Clastic

Dendrochronology is the study of:

• Radiometric Dating

• Tree Rings

• Fossils

• Geologic Time Scale

Which is the smallest division of the geologic time scale?

• Eon

• Era

• Epoch

• Period

The crystals in fast cooling lava are ​ (a)   than the crystals formed in slow cooling magma.

• smaller
• larger
• darker
• lighter

Whic mineral melts at the lowest temperature?

• Olivine

• Biotite

• Quartz

• Pyroxene

Which relative age dating principle is used when a geologist observes an outcrop of rocks and determines that the bottom layer is the oldest?

• Uniformitarianism

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Inclusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

When molten rock comes in contact with another rock and alters that rock ________ has occurred.

• Hydrothermal metamorphism

• Contact Metamorphism

• Regional Metamorphism

• Uniformitarianism