The Rock Cycle

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

• compacting and cementing

• cooling

• heat and pressure

• melting

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

• compacting and cementation

• cooling

• weathering and erosion

• heat and pressure

Hot, liquid molten rock found deep in the Earth is called

• magma

• intrusive igneous rock

• extrusive igneous rock

• lava

Some of the rocks that the spires (also known as hoodoos) of Utah's Bryce Canyon are made of are limestone and sandstone. What type of rock is limestone and sandstone?

• obsidian

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• igneous

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Using the rock cycle, weathering and erosion creates

• sedimentary rock

• sediments

• magma

• erosion

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

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• fossil fuels

Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale, shale into slate, and slate into magma.

• compacting and cementation, heat and pressure, and melting

• melting, weathering and erosion, and cooling

• compacting and cementation, weathering and erosion, and melting

• cooling, melting, and heat and pressure

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

• extrusive igneous rock

• extrusive metamorphic rock

• intrusive igneous rock

• magma

The interrelationship among the three rock types is identified as which of the following?

• the rock formation

• the rock cycle

• the rock helix

• the rock metamorphic

•The ____________is an ongoing series of processes inside Earth and on the surface

• earth's layers

• compressed rock

• geology

• rock cycle

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