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Science Vocabulary List 4 - All About Rocks

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Chemicals

a)

Materials found on the moon

b)

materials found on Earth and around Earth 

c)

a type of candy

d)

a type of river

2.

Volcanoes

a)

places where waves are made

b)

places where sharks are born

c)

places where rocks fall down

d)

places where the melted rock comes out on the surface of the Earth 

3.

Magma

a)

a type of dessert

b)

melted rock inside Earth 

c)

Solid rock inside the Earth

d)

a type of ice cream

4.

Lava

a)

melted rock on the surface of the Earth 

b)

Melted rock inside the Earth

c)

Solid rock on the surface of the earth

d)

Melted rock on the surface of the ocean

5.

Mid-Ocean Range

a)

A type of ocean current

b)

a single volcano

c)

a line of volcanoes on the bottom of an ocean 

d)

A single volcano on the top of a mountain range.

6.

Plates

a)

somewhere where you put food on

b)

Large, thin pieces of Earth's crust that stay still

c)

large, thick pieces of Earth’s crust that move 

d)

A type of dinnerware

7.

Pressure

a)

a rip

b)

a tug

c)

a push 

d)

a pull

8.

Seafloor Spreading

a)

The way rock is taken away from the earth's crust.

b)

the way rock is added to Earth’s crust on the bottom of an ocean 

c)

a type of wave

d)

a type of storm

9.

Igneous Rock

a)

a type of rock found only in deserts

b)

the kind of rock that forms when magma cools

c)

The kind of rock that forms when magma is hot

d)

A type of dusty rock

10.

Crystals

a)

a type of ice cream

b)

A type of salt

c)

tiny structures with flat sides and angles 

d)

Large structures with flat angles and sides

11.

Angles

a)

back

b)

sides

c)

Edges

d)

corners 

12.

Sedimentary Rock

a)

The kind of rock made inside volcanoes.

b)

the kind of rock made when small pieces of rock, shell, and bone are squeezed together.

c)

The kind of rock made when large pieces of rock, shell, and bone are squeezed together.

d)

The kind of rock made on the ocean floor.

13.

Sediment

a)

a type of rain

b)

a type of salt

c)

small pieces of rock, shells, and bone 

d)

Large pieces of rock, shells, and bone

14.

Metamorphic Rock

a)

The kind of rock that has many colors in it.

b)

the kind of rock that has been changed by heat and pressure 

c)

The kind of rock that has been changed by a lava flow.

d)

the kind of rock that is found in Antartica

15.

Compressed

a)

squeezed, or pressed, together

b)

pulled apart

c)

split into many parts

d)

pushed into equal parts

16.

Cycle

a)

a type of math problem

b)

a type of rock

c)

a set of events that repeats again and again 

d)

a bicycle

17.

Pattern

a)

a repeating order 

b)

a changing order

c)

A type of rock

d)

a type of cold

18.

Rock Cycle

a)

a clothing brand

b)

The way rocks stay the same across time.

c)

the way rocks change and become different rocks

d)

a band

19.

Weathered

a)

when weather is very intense

b)

getting older

c)

broken apart by water, wind, or ice 

d)

put together by water, wind, or ice.

20.

Weathering

a)

A type of weather

b)

the process of being broken apart 

c)

The process of being put back together

d)

The process of adding to a set procedure

21.

Gems

a)

A type of candy

b)

Minerals not valued for their beauty

c)

Minerals valued for their beauty 

d)

Minerals with only one specific use

22.

Minerals

a)

A type of food

b)

A type of candy

c)

Soft, living substances made in the Earth

d)

hard, nonliving substances made in Earth

23.

Cement

a)

a type of food

b)

press together for a short time

c)

stick together 

d)

pull apart