Rock Identification Practice

What process will form a sedimentary rock?

• Compaction and Cementation
• Heat and Erosion
• weathering and compaction
• pressure and time

A rock is formed from shells. It is considered what?

• Clastic
• Organic
• metamorphic
• chemical

Is this metamorphic rock foliated or non foliated?

• Foliated
• Non foliated

What process will form metamorphic rocks?

• Melting and cooling of magma or lava
• Heat and/or pressure
• weathering and erosion

Cooling and Hardening of magma deep underground results in a rock classified as

• Intrusive
• Extrusive

What is the softest mineral on MOH's scale of hardness?

• Diamond
• Talc

This rock formed when bits of other rocks became pressed into a solid. What type of rock is it?

• Sedimentary Rock
• Metamorphic Rock
• Igneous Rock

This rock was formed when magma cooled very slowly inside the Earth. What specific type of rock is it?

• Intrusive Igneous Rock
• Extrusive Igneous Rock
• Foliated Metamorphic Rock
• Clastic Sedimentary Rock

This rock formed when lava cooled very quickly on Earth's surface. What specific type of rock is it?

• Extrusive Igneous Rock
• Intrusive Igneous Rock
• Non-Foliated Metamorphic Rock
• Biochemical Sedimentary Rock

Two ways to describe types of metamorphic rocks are _____

• Extrusive and Intrusive
• Foliated and Non-Foliated
• Clastic and Biochemical
• Black and Gray