Science Grade 5 Quiz: Kinds of Rocks

What kind of rock is limestone?

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock

What characteristic is common among extrusive igneous rocks?

• glassy surface

• fossils

• crystals

What is the term for the interrelationship of how the three kinds of rocks are formed?

• rock metamorphosis

• rock helix

• rock cycle

• rock formation

Which processes in the rock cycle could turn magma into granite, granite into sand, and sand into sandstone?

• melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling

• cooling; weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing

• weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; heat and pressure

What do you call rocks that have been altered by heat and pressure beneath the earth’s surface?

• extrusive igneous rocks

• intrusive igneous rocks

• metamorphic rocks

• sedimentary rocks

What characteristic is found in sedimentary rocks?

• gas bubbles

• fossils

• glassy surface

• crystals

When magma crystallizes and forms big crystals while still inside the earth, what type of rock is formed?

• sedimentary rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

Which rock cycle processes are involved in the formation of igneous rocks?

• melting and cooling

• weathering and erosion

• compacting and cementing

• heat and pressure

Which of the following processes of the rock cycle can change granite, (igneous rock), into gneiss (metamorphic rock)?

• compacting and cementing

• melting and cooling

• heat and pressure

• weathering and erosion

‘Kaganapan’, a statue by national artist Napoleon Abueva is a sculpture created in marble in 1952. What kind of rock is marble?

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock