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Rock Cycle Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which type of rock results from the melting and cooling of magma?
a)

Intrusive

b)

Extrusive

c)

Foliated

d)

Nonfoliated

2.
Which type of rock forms from extreme heat and pressure?
a)

Igneous 

b)

Sedimentary

c)

Metamorphic

d)

Organic

3.
T / F As part of the rock cycle, rocks can only follow 1 set pathway.
a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.
Metamorphic rocks are formed by...
a)

Weathering and Erosion

b)

Heat and Pressure

c)

Melting and Cooling

d)

Deposition and Crystallizing

5.
The Rock Cycle starts with...
a)

Sediment

b)

Melting

c)

Igneous Rock

d)

Anything

6.
Which pathway CANNOT be taken by an igneous rock?
a)

compaction and cementation

b)

melting

c)

weathering and erosion

d)

heat and pressure

7.
All rocks can be...
a)

melted, compacted, and cooled

b)

melted, transformed, and eroded

c)

cooled, transformed, and eroded

d)

cooled, compacted, and transformed

8.
How does pumice become sandstone?
a)

weathering and erosion to sediment, then compaction 

b)

melting into magma, then cooling

c)

transformed by heat and pressure

d)

cooling into sediment, then transformed

9.

Sedimentary Rock --> ____________--> Sediment

a)

compaction and cemetation

b)

weathering and erosion

c)

heat and pressure

d)

melting and cooling

10.

Magma --> _____________ --> Igneous Rock

a)

Melting

b)

Cooling

c)

Metamorphism

d)

Compaction

11.

Which is NOT accurate?

a)

Igneous -->Melting --> Magma

b)

Sediment --> Compaction --> Sedimentary

c)

Metamorphic --> Heat and Pressure --> Sedimentary

d)

Magma --> Cooling --> Igneous

12.

Metamorphic Rock --> Weathering & Erosion --> __________

a)

Magma

b)

Igneous

c)

Sediment

d)

Metamorphic

13.

Sedimentary --> ____________--> magma

a)

Weathering and Erosion

b)

Heat and Pressure

c)

Melting

d)

Cooling

14.

Which Earth process breaks down rock into smaller pieces rock sediment?

a)

Erosion

b)

Compaction

c)

Weathering

d)

Cooling

15.

Which Earth process creates new rock?

a)

Weathering

b)

Cooling

c)

Erosion

d)

Melting