Rocks and the Rock Cycle

What type of sedimentary rock is formed when minerals crystallize out of solution to become rock?

• Clastic

• Chemical

• Organic

Contact metamorphism is when...

• Pressure builds up in rocks that is deep within the Earth

• Rock is heated by nearby magma

• The inner core solidifies to form a solid sphere

• Lava erupts and cools when it touches the Earth's surface.

When you watch a volcano erupt molten rock, you are seeing _____

• Lava

• Magma

• Mineral Crystals

• Igneous Rocks

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

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

• Extrusive Rock

• Igneous Rock

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Rock that forms when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

_______ rock forms from magma/lava

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

When rocks are deeply buried, placing them under pressure because of the weight of overlying layers, this is called:

• lithification

• cementation

• deposition

• compaction

Series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock

• extrusive rock

• rock

• rock cycle

• sediment

One of the major rock types that is created from previously existing rock by the action of intense heat and pressure

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• plastic deformation

• sedimentary rock

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

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous