Rocks formed during metamorphism depend on all of the following except:
a. Earth's magnetic field
b. the original rock's composition
c. temperature
d. pressure
What is a. Earth's magnetic field?
100
Magma that cools slowly forms this type of rock.
What is intrusive igneous?
100
The processes involved in the rock cycle include all of the following EXCEPT.
a. identification
b. erosion
c. weathering
d. compaction
What is a. indentification?
100
Strip mining is used to remove coal that is...
What is near Earth's surface?
200
Foliated rocks are distinguished by
What is banding?
200
Metamorphism can cause all of the following changes EXCEPT:
a. an exchange of atoms
b. a sudden melting
c. an enlargement of mineral grains
d. rearrangement of mineral grains
What is b. a sudden melting?
200
Lava that cools quickly forms...
What is extrusive igneous rock?
200
A rock is...
What is a mixture of minerals, mineraloids, glass, and organic matter?
200
Land reclamation after strip mining is whose responsibility..
What is the mining company's?
300
Clastic rocks are
What is made of fragments?
300
A classification of metamorphic rocks would include whether they are
What is foliated or non-foliated?
300
Fine-grained, extrusive rocks include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. granite
b. andesite
c. basalt
d. rhyolite
What is a. granite?
300
The pressure and heat that produce magma are caused in part by...
What is radioactivity?
300
Water flowing through coal mines carries________________ into lakes and streams, killing fish and polluting drinking water.
What is sulfur?
400
A clastic rock is named according to
What is the color its sediments?
400
TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfoliated rocks have very narrow banding.
What is FALSE? Foliated rocks have very narrow banding and non-foliated rocks have NO banding.
400
The minerals mica, hornblende, feldspar, and quartz mix together to form this rock...
What is granite?
400
The rock cycle indicaties that each type of rock can...
a. provide materials to make other rocks
b. form other rocks
c. be changed by forces at Earth's surface
d. all of the above
What is d. all of the above?
400
The main rock mined in strip mines.
What is coal?
500
TRUE or FALSE: Sedimentary layers are recognizable by differences in color, sediment, size, and composition.
What is TRUE?
500
A rock used by sculptors...
What is marble?
500
TRUE OR FALSE: All igneous rocks are formed the same way.
What is FALSE? Igneous rocks are formed in 2 ways: Intrusive and Extrusive.
500
The crystals that form in slowly cooling magma are...