Rocks Cycle Rocks

What is the parent material of all rocks?

• Magma

• Lava

• Sedimentary

• Organic matter

What is aboveground molten rock?

• Extrusive

• Magma

• Lava

• Sedimentary

Foliated & non-foliated are 2 types of...

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

Which rock cycle process causes many sedimentary rocks to have visible layers?

• eruption

• intrusion

• crystallization

• deposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

If heat and pressure inside Earth cause the texture and crystal structure of a rock to change, what new material is formed?

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• chemical rock

Which is the process that breaks up rock on Earth’s surface?

• deposition

• melting

• compaction

• weathering

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Geologists have classified rocks into three major groups of rocks which are:

• inorganic, organic and chemical rocks

• igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

• metamorphic, chemical and non chemical rocks

• sedimentary, inorganic and igneous rocks

What kind of igneous rock usually contains large crystals?

• clastic

• extrusive

• organic

• intrusive

You find a deposit of organic limestone. In what type of rock setting did it probably form?

• the ocean

• a volcano

• a swamp

• sand dunes

A rock that forms from many small fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• extrusive rock