Earth Science Vocab Quiz 8.1-8.2

How are metamorphic rocks changed?

• Cooled magma

• By intense heat, pressure, or chemical reactions

• Mineral composition

• Some other type of rock

How are sedimentary rocks formed?

• From cooled magma

• From cooled lava on the surface of the earth

• Rock formed from pieces of other rock and organic matter that have pressed and cemented together

• From hot liquid rock inside the earth

What is intrusive rock?

• Types of rock formed by accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles

• Igneous rock that forms from cooled lava on the surface of the earth

• Igneous rock that forms underground from cooled magma

• Types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface

What is igneous rock formed from? (Choose all answers that apply)

• Cooling and solidification of molten rock

• Deposition of mineral or organic particles

• Cooled lava on the surface of the earth

• Hot liquid rock inside the earth

What is extrusive rock?

• Igneous rock that forms from cooled lava on the surface of the earth

• Types of rock formed by accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface

• Igneous rock that forms underground from cooled magma

• Hot liquid rock inside the earth

What is magma?

• Cooled lava on the surface of the earth

• Hot liquid rock inside the earth

• Types of rock formed by accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles

• Started out as some other type of rock

What does texture refer to in an igneous rock?

• Started out as some other type of rock

• Size of crystals

• Hot liquid rock inside the earth

• Cooled lava on the surface of the earth

What is lava?

• Hot liquid rock inside the earth

• Types of rock formed by accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles

• Magma that comes out onto the earth's surface

• Igneous rock that forms from cooled lava on the surface of the earth

What is the definition of rock?

• Any natural material with a distinctive mineral composition

• Hard material only

• Soft material only

• Any natural material, hard or soft, having a distinctive mineral composition