Rock Cycle
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Mixed topic
100

What is true about all rocks in the rock cycle?

They can all be made from other rocks. 

100

If a crystal cools quickly the crystal size will be ....

small

100

Sedimentary rocks are changed to sediments by....

weathering and erosion

100

Metamorphic rocks are formed by ....

heat and pressure 

100

How must rocks with large crystals be formed? What kind are they? 

They must cool very slowly and be either igneous or metamorphic rocks. 
200

How are rocks classified into their groups?

Rocks are classified based on the way they form. 

200

Intrusive igneous rocks are made .....

below the surface

200

Sedimentary rocks formed from the remains of once living things are called

biochemical sedimentary rocks

200

Metamorphic rocks that alternate bands of minerals from light to dark are called

foliated 

200

A rock can be made of made of...

minerals, organic materials, volcanic glass or other materials

300

Name the two processes that create sedimentary rock. 

compaction and cementation

300

Igneous rocks made above the surface of the earth are made from ...

lava

300

This is the term for a rock fragment and also a method of classifying sedimentary rock. 

clast

300

What process causes a rock to permanently change shape by bending or folding?

plastic deformation

300

You find a rock with shells in in. You know this must be what kind of rock and why? 

sedimentary rock-igneous or metamorphic rock would have destroyed the biological remains. 

400

Metamorphism of rock occurs above what temperature? 

200 degrees Celcius 

400

What is the name of this igneous rock? 

obsidian

400

This type of sedimentary rock will fizzle when exposed to acid. 

limestone

400

What can cause contact metamorphism  

volcanos 

400

What can be determined by studying the shape of clastic grains? 

How far they have been transported (the degree of their erosion tells a story about them!) 

500

Name an igneous rock that cooled slowly. 

Basalt

500

What volcano is currently erupting as we speak and where is it? 

Mauna Loa on the big island of Hawaii. 

500

The largest size of clastic sedimentary rock is...

conglomerate 

500

Name a metamorphic rock and the parent material that it comes from

soapstone-talc

quartzite-quartz

marble-calcite/dolomite

schist-mica, garnet, quartz, feldspar

phyllite-mica, quartz, clay

500

What can cause regional metamorphism

earthquakes or tectonic activity

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