revision /rocks

Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is called-----

• Erosion
• Compaction
• Deposition
• Weathering

What is the main way rocks are classified?

• Their color and shapes
• How they form
• Mineral bands
• Where they form

The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediment together.

• compaction
• organic rock
• deposition
• cementation

When sediments are pressed together tightly, this is called ____________.

• Compaction
• Weathering
• cementation
• deposition

Fossils are only found in----

• sedimentary rocks
• igneous rocks
• metamorphic rocks
• oceans

Each rock type can follow only one pathway of the rock cycle.

• True
• False

What kind of igneous rock usually contains large crystals?

• sedimentary
• extrusive igneous
• intrusive igneous
• metamorphic

In order for a metamorphic rock to form, _______ is needed.

• Pressure
• Heat and Pressure
• Heat
• Weathering

The rock cycle shows the transformation of rock from one type to another. Which of these is part of the rock cycle?

• sedimentary --> melting and cooling --> metamorphic
• metamorphic --> melting and cooling --> igneous
• metamorphic --> melting and cooling --> sedimentary
• igneous --> melting and cooling --> sedimentary

The basalt intrusion occurred...--------- (intrusion: the action or process of forcing a body of igneous rock between or through existing formations, without reaching the surface.)

• after the limestone was deposited.
• before the limestone was deposited.
• before all three layers were formed.
• before the granite was formed.