Rock Cycle Questions
1. Name the three rock types.
2. Define mineral
3. Define rock.
4. Explain how volcanic activity and igneous rocks are related. p 112
5. How is magma formed? p 113
6. How are igneous rock classified? p118.
7. Define weathering.
8. Define erosion.
9. What type of rock forms from weathering and erosion?
10. Define lithification.
11. What are the two agents of lithification?
12. Define metamorphism.
13. What are agents of metamorphism?
14. List the two types of metamorphic rocks.
15. Define the rock cycle
Discovery Education – Unit: Rocks and the Rock Cycle - Engage category
1. Read through each section and view the images and videos.
2. Towards the bottom of the page complete the “Rock Solid Words” activity and
the “Sequence of Events” activity.
3. Watch the videos and answer the questions, write questions and answers.
Plate Tectonics video
1. What process occurs when magma solidifies?
2. What does magma lose as it goes to the surface?
3. What are most mountain ranges and continents made of?
Sedimentary Rocks video
4. How are rocks classified? Do not name the rock types.
5. What will the atoms that make up the magma bond in regular patterns called?
6. What will happen to sediment at the bottom of a lake to become a rock?
7. Where did the deep sediment that covers much of North America come from?
8. What is the most common way that metamorphic rocks can form?
9. What causes rocks to change?