Rocks & Rock Cycle

Geologists have classified rocks into three major groups of rocks which are:

• inorganic, organic and chemical rocks

• igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

• metamorphic, chemical and non chemical rocks

• sedimentary, inorganic and igneous rocks

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Any rock that forms from another rock as a result of changes in heat or pressure (or both) is a:

• chemical rock

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

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What kind of igneous rock usually contains large visible crystals?

• clastic

• extrusive

• organic

• intrusive

You find a deposit of organic limestone. In what type of rock setting did it probably form? (hint - Owasso has limestone because this area was once an ______)

• the ocean

• a volcano

• a swamp

• sand dunes

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A rock that forms from many small fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• extrusive rock

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The process by which metamorphic rock changes to igneous rock begins with

• melting

• erosion

• deposition

• crystallization

Which rock cycle process causes many sedimentary rocks to have visible layers?

• eruption

• intrusion

• crystallization

• deposition

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If heat and pressure inside Earth cause the texture and crystal structure of a rock to change, what new material is formed?

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• chemical rock

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You find a rock in which the grains are arranged in wavy, parallel bands of white and black crystals. What kind of rock have you probably found?

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• extrusive

To be classified as a mineral, a substance must satisfy this

requirement

• have a definite chemical composition

• naturally occurring

• be a solid

• all the above