Unit 4 Rocks Review

Granite forms from the slow crystallization of magma below Earth's surface.

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

All rocks on Earth's surface can weather and become sediment

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

All types of rock can potentially change from one type to another at some point on the rock cycle.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

the transport of fragments of rock by water, wind, ice, or gravity

• deposition

• lithification

• erosion

• weathering

What is letter E?

• Heat and pressure

• Melting

• Deposition, Compaction, Cementation

• Weathering and erosion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is letter G?

• Heat and pressure

• Cooling

• Deposition, Compaction, Cementation

• Weathering and erosion

Slate is a metamorphic rock formed from________.

• Schist

• Basalt

• Limestone

• Shale

Mafic igneous rocks are _______ in color and have _____ silica content.

• dark,low

• dark, high

• light, high

• light, low

Felsic igneous rocks are ________ in color and have ________ silica content

• dark, low

• dark, high

• light, high

• light, low

Coal is a _________ sedimentary rock.

• chemical

• organic

• clastic

• mafic