Rock Cycle

What geologic process changes pieces of rocks, minerals and other materials into sedimentary rocks?

• Compacting and Cementing
• Cooling
• Heat and Pressure
• Melting

What characteristic is common in metamorphic rocks?

• Fossils
• Foliations or layers
• Gas Bubbles
• Glassy Surface

What geologic process can change granite (igneous rock) into gneiss (metamorphic rock)?

• Compacting and cementing
• Cooling 
• Heat and pressure
• Melting

What type of rock is formed from slow cooling magma UNDER the earth's surface?

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sediment

Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale (sedimentary rock), shale into slate (metamorphic), and slate into magma

• Cooling; Melting; Heat and Pressure

• Compacting and cementing; heat and pressure; melting

• Melting; heat and pressure; cooling

• Weathering and erosion; compacting and cementing; cooling

What type of rock is formed from slow cooling magma under the earth's surface?

• Extrusive Igneous
• Intrusive Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Sediment

Which characteristic is found only in sedimentary rocks?

• Fossils

• Crystals

• Gas Bubbles

• Glassy Surface

The Mount Rushmore National Monument is carved from the granite (formed from magma underground) of South Dakota's Black Hills. What type of rock is granite?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• None of the above

The seated sculpture of President Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial was carved out of white Georgia marble (formed from Earth's pressure and heat). What type of is marble?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• None of the above

Which characteristic is common to EXTRUSIVE igneous rocks?

• Crystals

• Fossils

• Glassy surface

• Ribbonlike layers