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Science Vocabulary

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A naturally occurring, solid material made of various materials that compose most of the earth's crust

a)

Rock

b)

Grain

c)

Rock cycle

d)

Texture

2.

How a rock looks and feels according to the sizes of the mineral grains and other particles that compose the rock.

a)

Texture

b)

Clast

c)

Igneous Rock

d)

Nonclastic sedimentary rock

3.

Pieces of mineral crystals, rock fragments, and even fossils in a that determines its texture

a)

grain

b)

metamorphic rock

c)

clast

d)

rock

4.

A rock formed from solidified magma or lava

a)

sedimentary rock

b)

Igneous rock

c)

metamorphic rock

5.

A rock made from sediments produced by erosion, deposition, compaction, and cermentation

a)

Sedimentary Rock

b)

Metamorphic Rock

6.

A piece of broken or eroded rock.

a)

Clast

b)

Texture

7.

A rock made from eroded fragment

a)

Clastic Sedimentary Rock

b)

Chemical Sedimentary rock

8.

A rock made of sediments that not clastic minerals

a)

Nonclastic sedi. rock

b)

clastic sedi. rock

9.

A rock formed by Chemical precipitation

a)

chemical sedi. rock

b)

Sedimentary

10.

Any process that involves chemical substance dissolved in water to form a solid compound

a)

precipitation

b)

dynamic metamorphism

11.

rock formed from other types of rock are altered by high temperatures, pressures, and chemical process

a)

metamorphic rock

b)

igneous rock

12.

Changes in composition, texture, and structure of rocks that occures over large areas of heat

a)

Regional metamorphism

b)

rock

13.

By contact with high temp.

a)

contact metamorphism

b)

dynamic

14.

occurs when condtion changes rapidly in a rock

a)

dynamic

b)

rock cycle

15.

Metamorphic rock containing flattened or flaky mineral crystals

a)

foliated rock

b)

non foliated rock

16.

lacking bands and layers; tends to break into sharp pieces

a)

non folinted

b)

folinated

17.

processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.

a)

rock cycle

b)

rock

c)

texture

d)

clast