Rock Cycle Test

What is another word for "crystallization"?

• cooling

• melting

• magma

• sedimentation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Magma that reaches the Earth's surface is called:

• Weathering

• Sediment

• Lava

• Explosion

What type of igneous rock is formed when magma cools BELOW the Earth's surface?

• sedimentary

• magma

• extrusive

• intrusive

Heat and pressure create what type of rock?

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• intrusive igneous rock

What is the energy source that drives the process of creating sedimentary rocks?

• magma

• the Sun

• Earth's hot interior

• lava

Wind, water, ice, and plants can cause what type of weathering, physical or chemical?

• physical

• chemical

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

The process of sediment and soil being transported (moved) from one place to another by natural forces like wind or water is:

• sediment

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

What process changes a rock from sedimentary to metamorphic?

• metamorphism

• compaction and cementation

• compaction and compression

• heat and pressure

Magma that cools at the Earth's surface forms what type of igneous rock?

• extrusive

• intrusive

• lava

• granite

What process has to happen to create sediment from an igneous rock?

• cooling

• heat and pressure

• melting

• weathering and erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2