Rocks and Minerals Review

1. What type of rock is formed when magma and lava cools and hardens?

• Minerals

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

A rock formed from fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Extrusive Rock

• Igneous Rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

An igneous rock containing large crystals is most likely a(n)

• Chemical Rock

• Foliated Rock

• Extrusive Rock

• Intrusive Rock

You find a rock in which the grains are arranged in parallel bands of white and black crystals.  The rock is probably a(n)

• Igneous rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Extrusive rock

As lava cools and crystallizes, what type of rock will form?

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

The three groups of rocks are classified by

• How they form

• Color

• Grain size

• Chemical Composition

Formed by compacting & cementing of sediments

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

Has large crystals because of slow cooling

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock

Has small or no crystals because of rapid cooling

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• extrusive igneous

• intrusive igneous

Contains fossils. 

• sedimentary rocks

• metamorphic rocks

• extrusive igneous rocks

• intrusive igneous rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1