Rock Cycle

What Are The Three Main Types Of Rocks?

• Igneous, Depository, Metamorphic

• Depository, Igneous, Sedimentary

• Metamorphic, Igneous, Depository

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How are metamorphic rocks formed?

• Heating and cooling

• Deposition

• Heating and pressure

• Materials gathering and pressing together

How are igneous rocks formed?

• Sediment forming together

• Heating and pressure

• Cooling lava or magma

• Deposition

How are sedimentary rocks formed?

• Heating and pressure

• compacting & cemetation

• Weathering

• Cooling

Rocks can turn into any other rocks?

• True

• False

What geologic process changes pieces of rocks, minerals and other materials into sedimentary rocks?

• Compacting and Cementing
• Cooling
• Heat and Pressure
• Melting

What characteristic is common in metamorphic rocks?

• Fossils
• Foliations or layers
• Gas Bubbles
• Glassy Surface

What geologic process can change granite (igneous rock) into gneiss (metamorphic rock)?

• Compacting and cementing
• Cooling 
• Heat and pressure
• Melting

What type of rock is formed from slow cooling magma UNDER the earth's surface?

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sediment

Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale (sedimentary rock), shale into slate (metamorphic), and slate into magma

• Cooling; Melting; Heat and Pressure

• Compacting and cementing; heat and pressure; melting

• Melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling