Quiz Practice: Minerals, Igneous, and Sedimentary Rocks

What is created if a rock is melted?

• sediments

• ice

• magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is created if sediments are compacted and cemented together?

• sedimentary rocks

• igneous rocks

• metamorphic rocks

The 5 characteristics of minerals include; they are solids, non-living, __________, __________, and _____________.

• man made, contain 3 elements, sometimes liquids

• naturally occurring, have a chemical formula, a crystal shape

• multicellular, heterozygous, are crystals

• unicellular, organic, found in nature

How a mineral reflects light is called

• Hardness

• Streak

• Luster

• Cleavage

Igneous rocks that are mafic have minerals that are

• dark colored

• light colored

• intermediate colored

• not colored

What are the steps to make a sedimentary rock?

• Erosion, weathering, compaction, and deposition

• Sediments, deposition, weathering, and erosion

• Heat, pressure, sediments, melting, and magma

• Weathering, sediments, erosion, deposition, and compaction/cementation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

If you have an igneous rock that has light minerals in it then it has a color index called

• felsic

• phaneritic

• mafic

• vesicular

Click on the answers that are characteristics of INTRUSIVE igneous rocks

• cool slowly

• small mineral crystals

• cool quickly

• cool beneath the Earth's surface

• large mineral crystals

How can you distinguish between an intrusive igneous rock and an extrusive igneous rock?

• Intrusive - larger crystals or coarse grained

  Extrusive- small crystals or fine grained.

• intrusive are organic and extrusive are inorganic.

• Intrusive are foliated and extrusive are non foliated.

• Intrusive are man made and extrusive are naturally occuring.

What are the key words for the formation of igneous rocks?

• Melting

• Pressure

• Weathering

• Cooling

• Erosion