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Rock On Introduction

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the lithosphere?

a)

Earth's atmosphere

b)

Earth's crust and upper mantle

c)

Earth's crust ONLY

d)

Earth's inner core

2.

What are rocks made from?

a)

Elephants

b)

Air

c)

Minerals

d)

Liquids

3.

What describes a mineral's colour and texture?

a)

Streak

b)

Lustre

c)

Fracture

d)

Hardness

e)

Transparency

4.

What measures how easily the surface of a mineral is scratched or dented?

a)

Streak

b)

Lustre

c)

Fracture

d)

Hardness

e)

Transparency

5.

What measures how easily light travels through a mineral?

a)

Streak

b)

Lustre

c)

Fracture

d)

Hardness

e)

Transparency

6.

What are igneous rocks made from?

a)

Quartz

b)

Hard minerals from the core

c)

Talc powder

d)

Molten rock from the mantle

7.

What is magma called when it flows onto Earth's surface?

a)

Water

b)

Lava

c)

Liquid

d)

Mineral rock

8.

When lava or magma cools, it forms crystals. If it has a LONG time to cool does it form large or small crystals?

a)

Large

b)

Small

c)

Doesn't matter how long it takes

9.

What is weathering?

a)

Movement of broken down rock

b)

The process of breaking down rock

c)

The settling of broken down rock in other places

10.

What is erosion?

a)

Movement of broken down rock

b)

The process of breaking down rock

c)

The settling of broken down rock in other places

11.

What describes the formation of sediments?

a)

Movement of broken down rock

b)

The process of breaking down rock

c)

The settling of broken down rock in other places

12.

What forms sedimentary rocks?

a)

Sediments compacted under pressure

b)

Quartz compacted under pressure

c)

Sediments packed together loosely

d)

Only sand

13.

What is a metamorphic rock?

a)

Rocks formed by a process of change

b)

Rocks not part of the rock cycle

c)

Rocks not exposed to any pressure

14.

What processes can be part of the rock cycle? (Hint: there is more than one answer!)

a)

Weathering

b)

Erosion

c)

Moving rocks

d)

Melting

e)

Evaporating rocks