Rock Cycle Slides

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Rock Cycle

By Frances Lash

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Based on the illustration, what are three main types of rocks formed in the rock cycle? *Multiple answers.

sedimentary

magma

metamorphic

igneous

Multiple Choice

What is the MAIN way rocks are classified?

Their color and shapes

How they form

Mineral bands

Where they form

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What are the two intermediate stages that are not rock types?

magma/lava

compaction/cementation

sediments

pressure/heat

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This rock was molten lava that cooled quickly as it came out of a volcano. What type of rock is this?

Sedimentary

Igneous

Metamorphic

Multiple Choice

Is magma below or above ground?

above

below

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As lava cools and crystallizes, what type of rock will form?

Sedimentary

Metamorphic

Extrusive Igneous

Intrusive Igneous

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The process by which igneous rocks are formed...

heat and pressure

melting and cooling

compaction and cementation

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Wind, water, and ice breaking down rock is called

Erosion

Deposition

Compaction

Weathering

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Rock that forms when minerals form from solutions or when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

Sedimentary Rock

Metamorphic Rock

Igneous Rock

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Process when sediments settle downward, out of wind or water, pulled down by gravity

erosion

deposition

compaction

cementation

Multiple Choice

Marble is formed when intense heat and pressure is applied to limestone. What type of rock is marble?

A) metamorphic

B) sedimentary

C) extrusive igneous

D) intrusive igneous

Multiple Choice

You find a rock in the Appalachian mountains in which the grains are arranged in parallel bands of white and black crystals. The rock is probably a(n)

Igneous rock

Sedimentary rock

Metamorphic rock

Extrusive rock

Poll

What type of rock is formed through heat and pressure?

igneous

Metamorphic

Sedimentary

Rock Cycle

By Frances Lash

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