WorksheetsChapter 3 ROCKS
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which type of rock formed from the weathered products of preexisting rocks that have been transported, deposited, compacted, and cemented?
a)
Metamorphic
b)
Igneous
c)
Sedimentary
2.
Which type of rock formed by the alteration of preexisting rock deep within Earth (but still in the solid state) by heat, pressure, and/or chemically active fluids?
a)
Igneous
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Sedimentary
3.
What is a model that illustrates the origin of the three basic rock types and the interrelatedness of Earth materials and processes?
a)
Lava
b)
Magma
c)
Rock Cycle
4.
What are inorganic, non-clastic rocks that are commonly the result of evaporation and precipitation?
a)
clastic sedimentary rocks
b)
chemical sedimentary rocks
c)
biochemical (bioclastic) sedimentary rock
d)
foliated metamorphic rock
5.
What type of rock forms when crystals combine and form visible bands?
a)
clastic (inorganic) sedimentary rock
b)
biochemical (bioclastic) sedimentary rock
c)
chemical sedimentary rock
d)
foliated metamorphic rock
6.
What type of rock results from animal and plant secretions? (The term clastic indicates that these rocks contain fossils or parts of plants, shells, compacted plant material.)
a)
foliated metamorphic rock
b)
clastic (inorganic) sedimentary rock
c)
biochemical (bioclastic) sedimentary rock
7.
What type of rocks formed from weathered particles of rocks and minerals?
a)
clastic (inorganic) sedimentary rock
b)
chemical sedimentary rock
8.
Where do metamorphic processes take place?
a)
a few kilometers below Earth's surface
b)
on the Earth's surface
c)
just below the Earth's surface
9.
What type of rocks can fossils be found in?
a)
Igneous
b)
Metamorphic
c)
Sedimentary
10.
Which of the following represents the correct order of the processes responsible for the formation of sedimentary rocks?
a)
deposition, cementation, compaction, erosion, weathering
b)
weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
c)
erosion, weathering, compaction, cementation, deposition
11.
What type of rock forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface?
a)
intrusive igneous rocks
b)
extrusive igneous rocks
12.
A type of igneous rock that has formed on Earth's surface.
a)
intrusive igneous rocks
b)
extrusive igneous rocks
13.
What is the incorporation and transportation of material by a mobile agent, such as water, wind, or ice?
a)
deposition
b)
compaction
c)
erosion
14.
T or F Magma is a body of molten rock found at depth, including any dissolved gases and crystals.
a)
TRUE
b)
FALSE
15.
What is the process by which an agent of erosion loses energy and drops the sediment it is carrying; also the process by which water vapor is changed directly to a solid without passing through the liquid state?
a)
deposition
b)
compaction
c)
erosion
d)
weathering
16.
What is lava?
a)
a body of molten rock found at depth, including any dissolved gases and crystals
b)
magma that reaches Earth's surface
17.
Lava that cools so quickly that ions do not have time to arrange themselves into crystals will form igneous rocks with what type of texture?
a)
glassy
b)
coarse-grained
18.
Weathering is
a)
the incorporation and transportation of material by a mobile agent, such as water, wind, or ice
b)
the process by which an agent of erosion loses energy and drops the sediment it is carrying; also the process by which water vapor is changed directly to a solid without passing through the liquid state
c)
process by which sediments are squeezed together by the weight of overlying materials driving out water
d)
the disintegration and decomposition of rock at or near Earth's surface
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