Rocks and Minerals Quiz (Earth Science)

What are the three major types of rocks?

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Magma

• Obsidian

DEFINITIONS:

The smallest piece of matter that can still be identified as that matter

• atom

• rock cycle

• crystal

• metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

DEFINITIONS:

All the different paths rocks might take as they change from one rock type to another rock type

• atom

• rock cycle

• crystal

• igneous

DEFINITIONS:

A solid that has atoms arranged in a repeating pattern

• atom

• rock cycle

• crystal

• sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What are the five characteristics of minerals?

• natural, non-living, solid, crystal structure, and chemical makeup

• luster, hardness, smell, cleavage, and man-made

• magma, sediments, igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary

You can identify a mineral by just looking at it's color.

• True

• False

How are igneous rocks formed?

• When melted rock cools and becomes solid

• When one type of rock has been changed by high temperature and high pressure

• When small particles of rock and minerals become cemented together

Which of the following is an igneous rock?

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How are metamorphic rocks formed?

• When melted rock cools and becomes solid

• When one type of rock has been changed by high temperature and high pressure

• When small particles of rock and minerals become cemented together

Which of the following is an metamorphic rock?

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4