Rock Types & Rock Cycle

Multiple Select

With regards to rocks, in the rock cycle these three things happen to rocks over time.

• Sublimated

• Created

• Destroyed

• Transformed

• Personified

Match

With regards to rocks match the image to the process.

New rock being created in a lava flow

Rock being destroyed and carried off in a flash flood

Rock being transformed by heat from an adjacent magma chamber

Rock being destroy by ice freezing and expanding in the rock over and over again.

Animals digging & burrowing into rock and soils

• New rock being created in a lava flow

• Rock being destroyed and carried off in a flash flood

• Rock being transformed by heat from an adjacent magma chamber

• Rock being destroy by ice freezing and expanding in the rock over and over again.

• Animals digging & burrowing into rock and soils

Multiple Choice

Rock that comes from a magma or lava source?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

Multiple Choice

Preexisting rock that is/was altered by extreme heat, pressure, or both.

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

Multiple Choice

Rocks that form from the weathering and erosion of sediments, which are cemented and compacted in new locations.

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

Multiple Select

Igneous extrusive means the rock formed from a _________, ________

• magma

• lava

• underground

• on the surface

Multiple Select

Igneous intrusive means the rock formed from a _________, __________.

• magma

• lava

• on the surface

• underground

Fill in the Blank

The best way to know whether an igneous rock cooled slowly or rapidly is to check that rocks ________ size. (7 letters)

Match

Match the following

Granite

Pummice

Obsidian

Basalt

Rhyolite

• Granite

• Pummice

• Obsidian

• Basalt

• Rhyolite

Multiple Choice

The processes that break down prexisting rock near or on the Earth's surface.

• cementation

• compaction

• erosion

• weathering

Multiple Choice

When sediment gets carried away by wind, water, ice, gravity we call this....

• weathering

• erosion

• cementation

• compaction

Match

Match the following

• pieces of weathered particles: clay, silt, sand, cobbles, and boulders.

• Processes which break down rock physically and chemically.

• How sediment gets carried to a new location, water, glaciers, wind, and gravity.

Sediment

Weathering

Erosion

• Sediment

• Weathering

• Erosion

Match

Match the following

Sandstone

Limestone

Chalk

Flint

Conglomerate

• Sandstone

• Limestone

• Chalk

• Flint

• Conglomerate

Multiple Choice

Gneiss occur when the igneous rock _____ is squashed under pressure.

• basalt

• granite

• pegmatite

Multiple Choice

Schist is formed when the sedimentary rock ______ is put under high temperatures.

• Sandstone

• Shale

• Limestone

• Chalk

Multiple Choice

Marble is made from the sedimentary rock _______ under high pressures and temperatures.

• Limestone

• Sandstone

• Granite

• Shale

Match

Match the following

Gniess

Schist

slate

marble

Serpentine

• Gniess

• Schist

• slate

• marble

• Serpentine