Types of Rocks Vocabulary Quiz

What is the process in which different minerals melt into magma at different temperatures, changing its composition?

• Bowen's Reaction Series

• Fractional Crystallization

• Partial Melting

• Lithification

What is the term used to describe metamorphic rocks whose grains are arranged in parallel layers or bands?

• Foliated

• Non Foliated

• Porosity

• Evaporite

What is the percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces?

• Clastic

• Lithification

• Evaporite

• Porosity

What is the name for igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface?

• Intrusive Rock

• Extrusive Rock

• Basaltic Rock

• Granitic Rock

What is the simplified pattern that illustrates the order in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma according to their chemical composition and melting point?

• Bowen's Reaction Series

• Partial Melting

• Lithification

• Fractional Crystallization

What is the process that converts sediments into solid rock by compaction or cementation?

• Graded Bedding

• Cementation

• Bedding

• Lithification

What is the name for sedimentary rocks made from weathered sediments of other rocks?

• Regional Metamorphism

• Foliated

• Clastic Sedimentary Rocks

• Evaporite

What is the term for an igneous rock texture in which large crystals are scattered on a background of much smaller crystals?

• Porphyritic Texture

• Pegmatite

• Vesicular Texture

• Kimberlite

What is the name for a rare, ultrabasic rock that can contain diamonds and other minerals formed only under very high pressures?

• Intrusive Rock

• Kimberlite

• Basaltic Rock

• Granitic Rock

What is the name for a sedimentary rock formed of material deposited from solution by evaporation of water?

• Evaporite

• Foliated

• Non Foliated

• Porosity