Different Types of Rocks

This type of rock has holes in it because cooling lava traps pockets of gas.

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

This type of rock can include shells or fossils!

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Rocks are different from minerals because

• Rocks are organic

• Rocks are made of minerals

• Minerals are rocks

• Rocks are not naturally occuring

Which is not a type of rock?

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Vitreous

• Metamorphic

Igneous rocks are formed from

• magma and lava cooling off

• other rocks being changed by temperature and pressure

• pieces of rock and other solids getting cemented together over time

• other rocks breaking

Sedimentary rocks are formed from

• magma and lava cooling off

• other rocks being changed by temperature and pressure

• pieces of rock and other solids getting cemented together over time

• other rocks breaking

This rock will often have straight bands of different materials that press together over time.

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Intense heat and pressure cause this rock's appearance to become distorted and wavy. The new rock is classified as

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

If rocks are like pizza, then the toppings could be considered

• the minerals that make up rocks

• the different ways of forming rocks

• the chemical composition of minerals

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What two intense things help form metamorphic rocks?

• Temperature

• Density

• Pressure

• Volume