Rock Cycle and Fossils

What Are The Three Main Types Of Rocks?

• Igneous, Depository, Metamorphic

• Depository, Igneous, Sedimentary

• Metamorphic, Igneous, Depository

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary

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

• Deposition

How are sedimentary rocks formed?

• Heating and pressure

• Sediment forming together

• Weathering

• Cooling

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

Which characteristic is found only in sedimentary rocks?

• Fossils

• Crystals

• Gas Bubbles

• Glassy Surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which type of rock is made by small bits of rock, mud, or sand compacted and cemented together?

• Coal
• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which type of rock results from melting and cooling of magma?

• Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Sedimentary
• Extrusive