Classifying Rocks/Testing Minerals

What type of rock forms from cementation and compaction close to or on earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of rock forms from heat and pressure deep inside earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock forms from lava that has cooled at or near earth's surface?

• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic
• Igneous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the geological process by which rocks are formed, destroyed, or altered?

• continental drift
• plate tectonics
• water cycle
• rock cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which of the following is a physical property of minerals?

• luster
• reactivity
• oxidation
• flammability

Which of the following is a chemical property of minerals?

• color
• hardness
• reactivity
• luster

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Which type of rock is most likely to be the most dense (most tightly packed particles and therefore heaviest)?

• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• extrusive igneous
• all have the same density

Fossils are sometimes found in which type of rock?  (Fossils can only survive this rock's process of formation.)

• intrusive igneous
• extrusive igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which BEST describes the rock cycle?

• New rocks form from older rocks.
• Lunar rocks change into terrestrial rocks.
• Rocks in the ocean become rocks on land.
• Layers of rock are broken by faults.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

How are sedimentary rocks, such as shale and sandstone, formed?

• Particles are changed into liquids.
• Particles are compressed into layers.
• Particles are melted together by magma.
• Particles are heated by the Sun.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1