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Rock speed quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a rock

a)

A type of mineral

b)

a liquid

c)

A naturally-formed solid that is usually made of one or more minerals

d)

air

2.

What is the rock cycle

a)

How a mineral is made

b)

A series of processes that slowly change rocks from one type to another

3.

What is a sedimentary rock

a)

Rock that forms when sediments are pressed or glued together

b)

Rock that forms as molten rock cools and becomes solid

c)

Rock that forms with intense heat and pressure

d)

non of them

4.

What is an ignoes rock

a)

Rock that forms as molten rock cools and becomes solid

b)

Rock that forms when sediments are pressed or glued together

c)

Rock that forms with intense heat and pressure

d)

non of them

5.

What is a Metamorphic rock

a)

Rock that forms with intense heat and pressure

b)

Rock that forms as molten rock cools and becomes solid

c)

Rock that forms when sediments are pressed or glued together

d)

none of the above

6.

What is weathering

a)

The process by which natural forces wear down rocks

b)

Sediments being moved to different places

c)

sediments being put somewhere

d)

sediments being combined together

7.

What is erosion

a)

none of these

b)

sediments being combined together

c)

Process in which sediment is picked up and moved from one place to another

d)

rocks being weared down

8.

What is deposition

a)

sediments being moved to diffent places

b)

Process in which sediment is laid down in a new location

c)

sediments being combined together

d)

none of these

9.

What is a fossil

a)

water

b)

sand

c)

The preserved remains of an organism that lived in the past

d)

a mineral

10.

What is a sediment

a)

A fossil

b)

Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things

c)

a rock

d)

A mineral

11.

Can an sedimentary rock or Ignoes rock turn into a metamorphic rock

a)

True

b)

false

12.

What type if rock is pumice

a)

igneous rock

b)

sedimentary rock

c)

metamorphic rock

d)

An mineral.

13.

What type of rock is marble

a)

metamorphic rock

b)

sedimentary rock

c)

igneous rock

d)

A mineral

14.

What type of rock is sandstone

a)

ignoes rock

b)

metamorphic rock

c)

sedimentary rock

d)

a mineral

15.

Is lava molten rock above the earths surface or below

a)

Below

b)

above

16.

Is magma molten rock above or below the earths surface

a)

below

b)

above

17.

What is the most common type of rock

a)

sedimentary rock

b)

ignoes rock

c)

metamorphic rock

d)

magma