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WorksheetsScience Rocks Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What kind of rock does intrusive and extrusive describe?
a)
Sedimentary
b)
Igneous
c)
Solid
d)
Metamorphic
2.
Select the Metamorphic rock.
a)
Sandstone
b)
Basalt
c)
Marble
d)
Bitiuminous
3.
Select the Coarse grained characteristic.
a)
Small Crystals
b)
Formed deep in earth's surface
c)
Extrusive
4.
What is conquina mostly made up of?
a)
Plastic
b)
Glass
c)
Shells
d)
Steel
5.
What is weathering?
a)
The break down of water by water
b)
When wind, water, ice, or gravity moves soil and sediments to different locations
c)
When natural processes occur and decompose rock.
d)
The processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is broken down or melted, and forms again by geologic processes
6.
Which is not a process of the rock cycle?
a)
bubbling
b)
solidifying
c)
cementing
d)
subsidence
7.
What is a characteristic that sedimentary rock has but the others don't.
a)
color
b)
many kinds of rocks cemented toghether
c)
a forming process
d)
being apart of the rock cycle
8.
Rock Description: My color is very dark grey/black and I can holes and I am a Ingenious rock. What is my rock name?
a)
Basalt
b)
pumice
c)
sandstone
d)
Anthracite Coal
9.
Is this statement true?
A piece of sand is pushed by the ocean up on the shore. The sand is eroded by wind and rain and is brought to a volcano by the wind. The sand melts in the lava/magma and some time after, the what was a grain of sand but is now lava, explodes out of the volcano during an explosion.
A piece of sand is pushed by the ocean up on the shore. The sand is eroded by wind and rain and is brought to a volcano by the wind. The sand melts in the lava/magma and some time after, the what was a grain of sand but is now lava, explodes out of the volcano during an explosion.
a)
Yes
b)
No
10.
Is this true?
Rocks are classified by what they are made of.
Rocks are classified by what they are made of.
a)
Yes
b)
No
11.
Is this true?
There is one, and only one kind of coal.
There is one, and only one kind of coal.
a)
Yes
b)
No
12.
Is this true?
Non-foliated rocks have bands and break along the bands.
Non-foliated rocks have bands and break along the bands.
a)
No
b)
Yes
13.
How does sedimentary rock become magma
a)
Increase in heat and pressure
b)
melt
c)
cooling
d)
crystalization
14.
How does magma become an intrusive igneous rock?
a)
Crystallization above ground
b)
Crystallization below ground
c)
Heating
d)
Subsidence
15.
How does a metamorphic rock become soil
a)
Exposure to weathering
b)
cooling
c)
exploding
d)
melting
16.
What is deposition?
a)
Running water, freezing and melting of water and wind can break off small pieces of existing rock, bones, plants, and other material
b)
The step before cementation. This is before the mineral solution comes between the rock.
c)
Sediments are laid down to the bottom of a lake
d)
When rocks, soil, water, ice or other natural material is transported by wind, rain, or other natural processes.
17.
What decribes a conglomerate rock the best?
a)
Thin layers, smooth, grey, flat, foliated. Metamorphic
b)
_______ looks like it has layers, between rough and smooth. Sedimentry
c)
Has holes, not smooth, not rough. Dark in color. Ingneous
d)
Can be more than one color, cement: greyish, smooth is certain parts, rough in others. Sedimentry
18.
Is this statement true?
Sedimentary rocks are most likely to contain fossils.
Sedimentary rocks are most likely to contain fossils.
a)
Yes
b)
No
19.
How does an extrusive Igneous rock become sediments.
a)
exposure/weathering and erosion/depisition
b)
lithification and compaction
c)
melting
d)
Increase in temperature/pressure
20.
What are rocks not used to build/make?
a)
Graves
b)
Road construction
c)
Glass
d)
Tools
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