Types of Rock

What are the 3 major types of rocks?

• Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary

• Metamorphic, Igneous, Cementation

• Brown, Red, Gray

• Streak, Hardness, Breakage

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which type of rock most likely contains fossils?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

• all of the above

Which type of rock is formed when heat or pressure changes it?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What type of rock is granite?

• igneous

• sedimentary 

• metamorphic

rocks form from the cooling and hardening of molten magma.

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

What type of rock forms from molten magma under the surface?  

• Sedimentary

• Extrusive Igneous

• Intrusive Igneous

• Metamorphic

This rock was formed when molten rock cooled into a solid. What type of rock is it?

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock

A never ending process by which rocks are changed from one type to another.  

• weathering and erosion

• rock cycle

• heat and pressure

• pressing and cementing

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which type of rock is made when magma cools?

• sedimentary

• igneous

• metamorphic

• all of the above

a series of processes on the surface and inside the earth that slowly change rocks from one kind to another

• rock cycle

• carbon cycle

• nitrogen cycle

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