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Igneous
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Rock Cycle
Fun Facts
100
Obsidian is a rock that cools...
What is quickly
100
True or false: you are more likely to find fossils in sedimentary rock in than in any other rock.
What is true.
100
True or False: Metamorphic rock was once igneous or sedimentary?
What is yes. Tremendous heat and pressure can change any rock into a metamorphic rock.
100
True or False: Every kind of rock can turn into another.
What is true.
100
Talc is the softest rock. What is the hardest? (Hint: It's a rare gemstone.)
What is Diamond
200
Igneous rocks are formed from ____ cooling
What is lava or magma
200
There are 2 kinds of metamorphic rocks. Name them.
What is Foilated and Non-foilated.
200
Sedimentary rock can turn into a metamorphic rock by heat and pressure or spontaneous combustion?
What is heat and pressure?
200
What is the name of the scale where Talc is the softest and diamond the hardest.
What is Mohs Scale
300
True or False: There are two kinds of igneous rock, intrusive and extrusive.
What is true
300
Is coal, a fossil fuel, a sedimentary rock which came from the remains of forest-dwelling plants.
What is no. It is the remains of swamp-dwelling plants
300
True or False: Shale can change 5 different times while undergoing heat and pressure.
What is true. It first turns into slate, then Phyllte, Schist,Gneiss, and finally migmatite.
300
How does igneous rock become sedimentary rock?
What is weathering and erosion make sediment. Sediment is carried, deposited, compacted, and cemented.
300
True or false: A rock is a living thing?
What is false
400
Because of quick cooling, extrusive rocks have what size grains.
What is small
400
Is sandstone, a sedimentary rock, made of compacted sand and is sometimes breakable in your hand?
What is yes
400
Slate is a foilated rock. Name another foilated rock.
What is Gneiss.
400
If all kinds of rocks can turn into another, how many different ways can a rock turn into another?
What is 9. There are 3 rock types so each can change 3 times. 3 x 3=9.
400
Rocks are made of minerals. How many different minerals can be in a rock?
What is infinite. A rock can have as many or as few minerals as nature intended.
500
Igneous rocks can be different colors. Why?
What is the amount of silica in the lava.
500
True or False: There are 4 kinds of sedimentary rock.
What is False
500
Limestone can turn into 2 different kinds of marble. 1 is Fine grained marble. Name the other.
What is Coarse-Grained Marble.
500
Through melting and coming back out of a volcano, metamorphic rock can become igneous. How does an Igneous rock turn into a metamorphic rock?
What is by going back down into the crust where it experiences tremendous heat and pressure.
500
Rocks have been used throughout the centuries for weapons, construction, and what else?
What is tools