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Question 1Question 1

True or False: Each major group of True or False: Each major group of rocks only follows one pathway rocks only follows one pathway through the rock cycle.through the rock cycle.

Answer 1Answer 1

FalseFalse

Question 2Question 2

What is a rock generally made up of?What is a rock generally made up of?

Answer 2Answer 2

Minerals and other materialsMinerals and other materials

Question 3Question 3

What type of rock forms from the What type of rock forms from the cooling of lava above the ground or cooling of lava above the ground or the cooling of magma below the the cooling of magma below the surface?surface?

Answer 3Answer 3

IgneousIgneous

Question 4Question 4

What is the process where dissolved What is the process where dissolved minerals crystallize and glue minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together?particles of sediment together?

Answer 4Answer 4

CementationCementation

Question 5Question 5

Chalk formed from sediments made Chalk formed from sediments made of skeletons of microscopic living of skeletons of microscopic living things in the ocean must be what things in the ocean must be what type of sedimentary rock?type of sedimentary rock?

Answer 5Answer 5

Organic rockOrganic rock

Question 6Question 6

Heat and pressure deep within the Heat and pressure deep within the Earth can change any type of rock Earth can change any type of rock into what?into what?

Answer 6Answer 6

Metamorphic rockMetamorphic rock

Question 7Question 7

What does it mean if a metamorphic What does it mean if a metamorphic rock is nonfoliated?rock is nonfoliated?

Answer 7Answer 7

It does not have layers.It does not have layers.

Question 8Question 8

In the rock cycle, what type or types In the rock cycle, what type or types of rocks can form sedimentary rocks?of rocks can form sedimentary rocks?

Answer 8Answer 8

Any type of rockAny type of rock

Question 9Question 9

What is a sedimentary rock made up What is a sedimentary rock made up of rounded fragments of other rocks of rounded fragments of other rocks called?called?

Answer 9Answer 9

ConglomerateConglomerate

Question 10Question 10

True or false: Sandstone changing True or false: Sandstone changing into quartzite is an example of the into quartzite is an example of the process that forms sedimentary process that forms sedimentary rocks.rocks.

Answer 10Answer 10

False False

Question 11Question 11

True or false: The most common True or false: The most common extrusive rock is basalt.extrusive rock is basalt.

Answer 11Answer 11

TrueTrue

Question 12Question 12

How do geologists describe a rock’s How do geologists describe a rock’s texture?texture?

Answer 12Answer 12

The size, shape, and pattern of the The size, shape, and pattern of the rock’s grainsrock’s grains

Question 13Question 13

A rock that cools very quickly when it A rock that cools very quickly when it forms will have what type of texture?forms will have what type of texture?

Answer 13Answer 13

Smooth and shiny with no visible Smooth and shiny with no visible graingrain

Question 14Question 14

Where do most metamorphic rocks Where do most metamorphic rocks form?form?

Answer 14Answer 14

Deep below the surface of the EarthDeep below the surface of the Earth

Question 15Question 15

What is the most abundant intrusive What is the most abundant intrusive rock?rock?

Answer 15Answer 15

GraniteGranite

Question 16Question 16

A sedimentary rock formed when A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments squeeze together is rock fragments squeeze together is called what?called what?

Answer 16Answer 16

Clastic rockClastic rock

Question 17Question 17

How do geologists classify How do geologists classify metamorphic rocks?metamorphic rocks?

Answer 17Answer 17

By the arrangement of the grains By the arrangement of the grains that make up the rockthat make up the rock

Question 18Question 18

The series of processes on the Earth The series of processes on the Earth and below the Earth’s surface that and below the Earth’s surface that slowly changes rocks from one kind slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called what?to another is called what?

Answer 18Answer 18

The rock cycleThe rock cycle

Question 19Question 19

True or false: Particles of a rock True or false: Particles of a rock called grains give a rock its texture.called grains give a rock its texture.

Answer 19Answer 19

TrueTrue

Question 20Question 20

True or false: Examples of True or false: Examples of clasticclastic rocks, which are made of particles of rocks, which are made of particles of other rocks, include sandstone, other rocks, include sandstone, shale, and breccia.shale, and breccia.

Answer 20Answer 20

TrueTrue

Question 21Question 21

When all the grains of a rock are When all the grains of a rock are large and easy to see, they are large and easy to see, they are described as what?described as what?

Answer 21Answer 21

Coarse-grainedCoarse-grained

Question 22Question 22

The process by which sediment The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind settles out of the water or wind carrying it is called what?carrying it is called what?

Answer 22Answer 22

Deposition Deposition

Question 23Question 23

True or false: Igneous rocks that True or false: Igneous rocks that formed beneath the Earth’s surface formed beneath the Earth’s surface are extrusive rocks.are extrusive rocks.

Answer 23Answer 23

FalseFalse

Question 24Question 24

What does foliated mean?What does foliated mean?

Answer 24Answer 24

When a metamorphic rock’s grains When a metamorphic rock’s grains are arranged in parallel layersare arranged in parallel layers