Formation of Rock in This Geologic Profile Area

Georgina is a rock collector. She is looking at some information about two of the rocks she has collected on her travels. The information is as follows:

• Rock A formed from small pieces of rock.
• Rock B formed from liquid rock in a different place.
• Rocks A and B formed at about the same time.
• Are Rocks A and B the same or different types of rock?

The rocks are

• the same type because they both formed from rock material.

• the same type because they formed at the same time.

• different types because they formed in different ways.

• different types because they formed in different places.

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On the island of Hawaii, Keanu notices that the sand on the beach is black, the same color as the rock formations on the island. Keanu realizes the sand used to be part of the rock formations. How did material from the rock formations turn into sand?

• Rays from the sun shone down on the rock, and it broke into pieces.

• If anything were left out for a long time, it would break into small pieces.

• The sand was formed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters. These disasters were strong enough to break the rock into small pieces.

• Wind and rain interacted with the rock, breaking it into small pieces.

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Africa and Europe are very close to each other, but they used to be far apart. Which diagram above shows what happened to the plates that Africa and Europe are part of?

• Diagram A: The plates hit each other and broke into pieces, creating sand.

• Diagram B: The plates pushed against each other, causing the edges to bend upward.

• Diagram C: One plate went underneath the other plate and sank into the soft rock below.

• Diagram D: One plate went underneath the other plate and sank into the ocean below.

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A mining company was comparing rock samples from two different mines. Their observations showed that the rock samples were two different types of rock.

How could energy have played a role in the different rock types forming?

• Energy from different sources leads to different types of rock. Energy inside Earth melts rock into liquid rock, but energy from the sun causes rock to weather into small pieces of rock.

• Energy causes different types of rock to change in different ways. Energy changes igneous rock into liquid rock and changes sedimentary rock into small pieces of rock.

• Energy changes rock on different continents in different ways. Each continent on Earth has different rock that might form liquid rock or small rock pieces when exposed to energy.

• Energy caused one rock type to form, but not the other. Rock that forms because of energy is a different type of rock than rock that forms without energy.

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The process of sediment being glued together is called

• cementation
• compaction
• cross section
• erosion

The ability to make things move or change is called ______________.

• energy
• erosion
• power
• matter

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The movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water is called

• energy
• erosion
• power
• matter

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What type of rock is formed when magma cools and becomes solid?

• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary
• candy

What do we call anything that has mass and takes up space?

• matter
• magma
• energy
• erosion

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A ______________ is one of the many different types of matter that make up rocks.

• matter
• mineral
• metamorphic
• mass