Science, Chapter 8

What forms when layers of sediment are pressed together and harden?

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• volcano

What forms when igneous or sedimentary rocks are changed by great heat and pressure?

• metamorphic rock

• fossil

• minerals

• flood

Hard pieces of the earth's surface are called _______.

• rocks

• volcano

• fossil

• mineral

What forms when melted rock cools?

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• mineral

Rocks are classified by how they are ______.

• formed

• layered

• named

• found

An opening in the earth that allows melted rock to come to the surface is called a ___________.

• volcano

• fossil

• flood

• mineral

Any remaining part of a living thing that died long ago is called a _______.

• fossil

• mineral

• rock

• flood

A solid material in nature that was never alive is called a ________.

• mineral

• fossil

• rock

• volcano

Rocks are made up of one or more ________.

• minerals

• fossils

• rocks

• volcanos

What evidence supports the worldwide flood?

• fossils

• volcanos

• hardness

• rocks