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100
What rock has a glassy surface, is formed when lava cools very quickly, and is used to make arrow heads?
What is obsidian?
100
What are the three main types of rocks?
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock, but it can change into what metamorphic rock?
What is quartzite?
100
What is the characteristic of a rock with holes in it?
What is gas bubbles?
100
What is the most common igneous rock?
What is basalt?
200
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ is a rock with visible fossils.
What is limestone?
200
What forms a sedimentary rock?
What is small particles of sand, shells, pebbles, and other fragments of materials being hardened together into layers of rock over time?
200
What processes can transform magma into granite, granite into sand, and sand into sandstone? A. Cooling; weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing B. Melting; heat and pressure; cooling C. Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling D. Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; heat and pressure
What is A. Cooling; weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing?
200
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, __ __ __ __ __ __ __, and __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and __ __ __ __ __ __ __ are the three processes that can happen to a sedimentary rock.
What is metamorphoses, melting, and weathering and erosion?
200
Name two things that can be different about a metamorphic rock from its original rock.
What is color, hardness, or smoothness? (must have at least two out of three)
300
What is the name of a metamorphic rock that is gray, green, or bluish and can be easily broken into smooth, flat pieces?
What is slate?
300
Where and how are metamorphic rocks formed?
What is formed under the surface of the earth due to heat and pressure?
300
What was marble before it was a metamorphic rock? (Hint: a sedimentary rock)
What is limestone?
300
What temperature range does it take to melt rock?
What is 600°C to 1300°C?
300
True or False: A rock can be created and/or destroyed.
What is false?
400
What is the name of a rock that is sedimentary, with visible sand and pebbles, which forms when pebbles, stones, and small particles are pressed together?
What is conglomerate?
400
What are the two types of igneous rocks and how are they formed?
What is extrusive and intrusive igneous rock, extrusive rock is formed outside of the earth's crust when magma cools, and intrusive rock is formed inside the earth's crust when magma cools?
400
What series of geologic processes transform sandstone into quartzite, quartzite into magma, and magma into rhyolite? Pick the correct three processes and put them in order. (Hint: these are the choices: heat and pressure, melting, cooling, weathering and erosion, and compacting and cementing.)
What is heat and pressure; melting; cooling?
400
What special characteristic does marble have?
What is crystals?
400
What century was the modern rock cycle invented in?
What is the 18th Century?
500
What is the name of a rock that is metamorphic, with ribbon-like layers, and is found on mountainsides?
What is gneiss?
500
What are the three types of sedimentary rock?
What is clastic, chemically formed, and organically formed?
500
An intrusive rock is a rock that forms below the earth's crust. What are two minerals that can form in an intrusive rock?
What is diamonds and quartz?
500
Put these words in order of the rock cycle, starting with magma: weathering and erosion, sedimentary rock, melting, lithification, sediments, metamorphoses, igneous rock, cooling, metamorphic rock.
What is magma, cooling, igneous rock, weathering and erosion, sediments, lithification, sedimentary rock, metamorphoses, metamorphic rock, melting.
500
Who came up with the modern rock cycle?
What is James Hutton?