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WorksheetsRock Cycle
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
What are the three types of rocks that are part of the rock cycle?
Hard, soft, and brittle
Sand, stone, and volcanic
Dactylic, iambic, and spondaic
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
What do you need in order for igneous rock to form?
A volcano
A mountain
A glacier
A canyon
What do granite and basalt have in common?
They're sedimentary rocks
They're metamorphic rocks
They're igneous rocks
They're formed by erosion
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is very hot, lava is cool.
Magma is molten rock within the earth; lava is molten rock on the earth's surface.
Magma is molten rock on the earth's surface; lava is molten rock within the earth.
Magma is cool, lava is very hot.
Which of these is a sedimentary rock?
Granite
Obsidian
Sandstone
Quartzite
What can you infer about metamorphic rocks from their name?
They form deep within the earth
They form on the earth's surface
They form under heat and pressure
They have changed in some way
Where might you find mountains of metamorphic rock?
Near volcanoes
At the boundaries between tectonic plates
Buried under bodies of water
Near any landscape that has been eroded
What has to happen to sediment in order for it to become sedimentary rock?
It has to bond and harden
It has to be buried deep within the earth
It has to be around a volcanic eruption
It has to be washed away by wind and rain
Sedimentary rock is most similar to which of the following?
When does a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?
When it's left alone over a long period of time
When it erupts out of a volcano
When its sediments bond together
When it's subjected to intense heat and pressure
