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Rock cycle vocab

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The cycle linking the process which form igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic.

a)

Pangaea

b)

Rock cycle

2.

Rocks made from magma that has cooled and solidify.

a)

Igneous rock

b)

Mid-ocean ridge

3.

Rocks formed under extreme pressure and temperature from existing rock.

a)

Crust

b)

metamorphic

4.

Rocks made from layers of sediment and dead creatures pressurized and cemented and cemented together

a)

sedimentary

b)

continental drift

5.

Igneous rock that formed below the earth's surface and which is made of large.

a)

Intrusive

b)

Transform boundary

6.

Igneous rock that formed above the earths surface and which is made of very small crystal's.

a)

Extrusive

b)

Crust

7.

Hot molten rock below the earth's surface.

a)

Convergent boundary

b)

Magma

8.

Hot molten rock from below earth's surface that is expelled by volcanoes.

a)

Lava

b)

Theory of Plate tectonics

9.

The theory that earths continentals were once joined as a sing land mass.

a)

Continental drift

b)

Mid-ocean ridge

10.

The name of the giant continental that had once been joined together.

a)

Pangaea

b)

Hot spot

11.

Huge under water mountains

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Mid-ocean ridge

12.

The theorist that earth's lithosphere is mad of huge plate that move over the surface of the earth.

a)

Mid-ocean ridge

b)

Theory of Plate Tectonics

13.

The process where hot soft rock rises, cools and sinks, then is heated and rises again.

a)

convection current

b)

Pangaea

14.

A thin layer of cool rock that surrounds Earth's surface.

a)

Crust

b)

Metamorphic

15.

Earth's crust and the very top of the mantle.

a)

Lithosphere

b)

Magma

16.

Occur where plate move apart. Most divergent boundaries are found in the ocean.

a)

Divergent boundary

b)

Magma

17.

Occurs where plates scrape past each other.

a)

Transform Boundary

b)

Intrusive

18.

Place where heated rock rises inplumes, of thin columns, from the mantle.

a)

Pangaea

b)

Hot Spot