Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks Quiz

What is the term for the rock that exists before metamorphism starts?

• Metamorphic rock

• Igneous rock

• Parent rock

• Sedimentary rock

What is the blanket term for a range of low-temperature and low-pressure physical and chemical changes that happen to buried sediments and sedimentary rocks?

• Metamorphism

• Erosion

• Diagenesis

• Weathering

What is the highest temperature at which metamorphism can take place?

• 200 °C

• 100 °C

• The temperature at which a rock begins to melt

• 300 °C

How does water affect the upper temperature limit of metamorphism?

• It depends on the type of rock

• It decreases the upper temperature limit

• It increases the upper temperature limit

• It has no effect on the upper temperature limit

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How does the mineral composition of a rock affect the upper temperature limit?

• It depends on the type of rock

• It has no effect on the upper temperature limit

• It increases the upper temperature limit

• It decreases the upper temperature limit

What is the process that takes place within a body of rock as a result of it being subjected to high pressure and/or high temperature?

• Weathering

• Metamorphism

• Erosion

• Melting

What is the term for a rock that forms from the re-arrangement of atoms contained within the parent rock?

• Erosion

• Melting

• Weathering

• Metamorphism

What is the term for the change that takes place within a body of rock as a result of it being subjected to high pressure and/or high temperature?

• Melting

• Metamorphism

• Weathering

• Erosion

What is the term for the process that involves the burial of igneous, sedimentary, or pre-existing metamorphic rocks to the point where they experience different pressures and temperatures than those at which they originally formed?

• Melting

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Metamorphism

What is the term for the process that takes place if cold rock near the surface is intruded and heated by a hot igneous body?

• High Melting

• Igneous Erosion

• Chemical Weathering

• Contact Metamorphism