Unit 2 Part 4 Rocks and The Rock Cycle

Main type of sedimentary rock; made of fragments of other rock

• clastic

• chemical

• organic

• inorganic

Also known as evaporites

• clastic

• chemical

• organic

• inorganic

Composed of remains of living things

• clastic

• chemical

• organic

• inorganic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Sedimentary rocks record history because of the fossils that can be found in it.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Igneous rocks that cool slowly beneath Earth’s crust are ____.

• extrusive

• intrusive

• sedimentary

• always magnetic

Extrusive rocks, which cool more rapidly than intrusive rocks, are generally more ____.

• coarsely grained

• radioactive

• finely grained

• magnetic

Intrusive igneous rocks form ____.

• fine-grained rocks

• when a molten mass of rocks cools quickly

• on Earth's surface

• coarse-grained rocks

What type of rock can become a sedimentary rock?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• all of these

What process creates magma?

• cooling and crystallization

• heat and pressure

• melting

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

Minerals are rocks but not all rocks are minerals.

• True

• False