Earth History Quiz 2: Lessons 6-10

All rocks contain

• fossils
• sand particles
• minerals
• air pockets

A family was building a sand castle. They realize that the castle will eventually be

• folded
• a rock
• deposited
• eroded

An orderly arrangement of atoms and molecules with a specific shape determined by its chemical composition is called

• a mineral
• a rock
• a crystal
• a till

Model that describes how one type of rock can be changed into another type of rock is called

• water cycle
• life cycle
• uni cycle
• rock cycle

The rock pictured below is the most common rock on the Earth's surface. It has large crystals that can be seen and felt. It is called

• basalt
• sandstone
• granite
• pumice

Weathered rock materials are called

• crystals
• minerals
• sediments
• rust

The release of sediment when the transporting agents (such as gravity, water, wind, glaciers) slows down or stops is called

• deposition
• withdralism
• stratification
• moraines

Weathering in which the chemical makeup of rocks does not change is called

• Chemical Weathering
• Mechanical Weathering
• Clinical Weathering
• Ionic Weathering

A naturally occurring, inorganic compound found in rock is called a

• fossil
• abrasive
• mineral
• compound

Slow cooling minerals below the ground (intrusive) will likely have

• large crystals
• no crystals
• small crystals
• fossils