Rock Cycle Quiz

Any solid mass of mineral or mineral-like matter that occurs naturally as a part of the planet

• Rock

• Tectonic plates

• Metamorphic rock

• Volcano

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Igneous rock

• Type of rock formed when hot liquid rock (magma or lava) cools into a solid

• Type of rock that contains large crystals

• Type of rock formed in chemical reactions where one type of rock is changed by pressure or heat

• Molten rock on the surface of the Earth

Lava

• Molten rock on the surface of the Earth

• Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface

Magma

• Molten rock on the surface of the Earth

• Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface

Sedimentary rock

• A type of rock formed in chemical reactions where one type of rock is changed by pressure or heat into a new type of rock with different properties

• Type of rock formed from layers of sand, soil, clay, gravel, and other matter that built up in one location over time

• A type of rock formed when hot liquid rock (lava or magma cools into a solid

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Metamorphic rock

• A type of rock formed in chemical reactions where once type of rock is changed by pressure or heat into a new type of rock with different properties

• A type of rock formed when hot liquid rock (lava or magma) cools into a solid

• A type of rock formed from layers of sand, soil, clay, gravel, and other matter that built up in one location over time

Intrusive igneous rock

• forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface

• forms when lava hardens on the surface of the Earth

extrusive igneous rock

• forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface

• forms when lava hardens on the Earth’s surface

Composition and ____ are two properties used to classify igneous rocks?

• Smell

• Taste

• Texture

Weathering

• Moves rocks

• Breaks rocks into sediments

• • when an agent of erosion (water, wind, ice, or gravity) loses energy, it drops the sediment

• is a process that squeezes or compacts sediments together

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