Rocks, Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcano Test Review

Match the following properties of minerals to their definitions

• Streak

• The color of a mineral's powder

• Hardness

• The resistance to scratching

• Luster

• The way light shines off of the surface

• Fracture

• How a mineral breaks

Match the following types of rock to the process that forms them

• Heat & pressure

• Metamorphic

• Cooling lava

• Extrusive Igneous

• Compaction & cementation

• Sedimentary

• Cooling magma

• Intrusive Igneous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which two arrows would be labeled "melting?"

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which two arrows would be labeled "Heat & pressure?"

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which type of rock would be labeled "Sedimentary?"

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which mineral would be able to scratch Jade? (a)  

• Citrine
• Calcite
• Apatite
• Azurite

Which blank should be labeled as the outer core?

Match the type of plate boundary to a description of the movement.

• Plates moving away from each other

• Divergent

• Plates sliding past each other

• Transform

• Plates moving toward each other

• Convergent

A ​ (a)   volcano is a low, flat volcano made of cooled lava.

A ​ ​ (b)   ​volcano is made entirely of ash.

A ​ (c)   volcano is made of layers of both cooled lava and ash.

• shield
• cinder cone
• composite

​ ​ (a)   are the seismic wave that travel the fastest and squeeze and compress the soil as they move through it.

​ (b)   move the ground side-to-side.

​ (c)   are the most damaging.

• P waves
• S waves
• Surface waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2