WorksheetsRock Test Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 11mins
The remains or traces of an ancient plant or animal that has been preserved in rock.
Sediments
Fossil
Magma
Made from pieces of rock, mineral, animal remains, and plant remains that have been cemented or compacted together.
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Material that settles out of wind or water.
Fossil
Coal
Sediments
Rock inside Earth that has melted into a liquid.
Sediments
Lava
Magma
Molten rock that has cooled and become solid.
Igneous rock
Sedimentary rock
Metamorphic rock
How is a rock different from a mineral?
A mineral is a type of rock
A rock has a perfect crystal structure.
A rock can be made of one or more types of minerals
A rock is always made of three minerals.
A metamorphic rock melts. This molten rock cools and becomes solid. These processes of changing rock are part of the_________________?
Magma cycle
Metamorphic cycle
Rock cycle
Pressure cycle
The most common type of rock on Earth’s surface is:
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
The magma inside a volcano slowly cooled into rock. Over time, wind and water wore away the weaker rock surrounding it. The landform left at Earth’s surface is______________________?
Intrusive igneous rock
Extrusive igneous rock
Sedimentary rock
Metamorphic rock
The limestone towers in Mono Lake, California formed when dissolved minerals re-formed. These towers are made from_______________?
Intrusive igneous rock
Extrusive igneous rock
Sedimentary rock
Metamorphic rock
Coal is made from the remains of ____________?
Animals
Plants
Rocks
Both plants and animals
An example of how sedimentary rock can give information about past conditions is through__________________?
Preserved mud cracks
Easily flowing lava
Thick, sticky lava
Metamorphic changes
The arrangement of minerals in wavy or parallel bands in metamorphic rock is called____________?
Melting
Evaporation
Metamorphization
Foliation
What are the 3 types of rocks in the rock cycle?
Sand, stone, steel
Marble, slate, sandstone
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Granite, pumice, rhyolite
The rock cycle shows how rocks continually__________?
Change in color
Increase in size
Change over time
Become harder
Which type of rock forms when molten rock cools?
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Rock salt (halite) is an example of sedimentary rock that develops from dissolved minerals when______________?
Water evaporates
Magma cools
Sediments break down
Sand settles in water
If an igneous rock has large mineral crystals, what do you know about it?
It cooled slowly
It cooled quickly
It has no minerals
It is a sedimentary rock
How do geologists know that an ancient ocean once covered Ohio?
The have pictures of the prehistoric ocean
There is still an ocean covering Ohio
They have found fossils of fish in Ohio rock
There was no ocean covering Ohio in prehistoric times
You have found fossils in a rock. What type of rock have you found?
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
What step is missing in this sequence: Igneous rock ---> weathering and erosion ---> sediments ---> ??? ---> Sedimentary rock
Melting
Cooling
Evaporation
Cementation and compaction
How do Igneous rocks form?
Molten rock cools
Compaction and cementation
Heat and pressure
What two things help metamorphic rocks form?
Cementation and compaction
Heat and pressure
Magma and lava
Intrusive igneous forms:
Inside the earth from lava
Inside the earth from magma
On the earth's surface from lava
On the earth's surface from magma
Extrusive Igneous Forms:
Inside the earth from lava
Inside the earth from magma
On the earth's surface from lava
On the earth's surface from magma
Intrusive igneous cools:
Slowly
Quickly
Extrusive igneous cools:
Slowly
Quickly
