Rock Cycle

The Rocky Mountains are made of what type of rock?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The rock found in Western Nebraska is which type?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Common types of igneous rock include

• granite

  shale

  sandstone

• granite

  basalt

  rhyolite

• sandstone

  shale

  gniess

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

_____________________forms when any type of rock is weathered, a process driven by energy from the sun.

• Basalt

• Gniess

• Sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

When matter gets transformed by energy, the same matter is still present.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Sediment forms when any type of rock is weathered. Weathering is a process driven by ___________.

• wind and rain

• energy from the sun

• energy from Earth's interior

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What are the two ways plate motion can transform rock?

• Subduction and uplift

• Convergent and divergent plate motion

• Volcanoes and earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Geologists classify rocks into three main types, based on _________________.

• how much weathering has occurred

• where they are found

• how they are formed

Rock that has formed from the cooling and hardening of liquid magma is called ____________.

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Rock that has formed through the compaction and cementation of sediment is called _________________.

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock