Types of Rocks*

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 types of rocks?

• Sedimentary

• Minerals

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

How are rocks classified?

• Based on how they are formed

• What color they are

• What they are shaped like

• Where they are found

If I have a rock with wavy layers, what type of rock is it most likely to be?

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

Which type of rock forms from cooling and hardening?

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

What type of rock forms from heat and pressure?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

Igneous rock that forms from lava on Earth's surface

• Organic Rock
• Intrusive Rock
• Clastic Rock
• Extrusive Rock

Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface

• intrusive Rock

• extrusive rock

• Chemical Rock

• Clastic Rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What do we call the group of metamorphic rocks that have visible layers or bands of minerals within them?

• Sedimentary
• Stratified
• Foliated
• Unfoliated

Process by which large sediments are glued together by dissolved minerals to form rock

• Compaction

• Deposition

• Cementation

• Erosion

This type of rock forms when small particles of rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.

• Igneous rocks

• Metamorphic rocks

• Sedimentary rocks

• Intrusive rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1