Maintenance Sheet- Rocks
1. Igneous rock forms when
A. magma cools and hardens.
B. minerals crystallize out of water.
C. heat and pressure change the
composition and texture of a rock.
D. natural cement binds rock fragments
together.
Name:______________________________
2. Volcanic activity on Earth’s surface
most likely results in the formation
of which of the following types of rock?
A. intrusive igneous rock
B. extrusive igneous rock
C. clastic sedimentary rock
D. chemical sedimentary rock
3. How does clastic sedimentary rock
form?
4. Stratification occurs as the result of
which of the following processes?
A. Rock fragments are cemented
together by a mineral such as calcite
or quartz.
B. Dissolved minerals crystallize out of
solution in water to form solid minerals.
C. Heat and pressure turn partially
decomposed plant material into
rock.
D. Skeletons of sea animals that
collected on the ocean floor are
cemented together.
A. the cooling and solidification of
magma
B. the partial or complete melting of
rock
C. the deformation of rock by heat and
pressure
D. the deposition of sediments in a
body of water
5. Buried rock is exposed at Earth’s
surface by the combination of which
two processes?
6. Which of the following processes
forms sediment?
A. weathering and deposition
B. uplift and erosion
C. erosion and deposition
D. deposition and uplift
7. Rock in which the composition and
texture of the rock have been changed
by heat and pressure is called
A. felsic rock.
B. mafic rock.
C. igneous rock.
D. metamorphic rock.
9. Which of the following processes is
NOT part of the rock cycle?
a. metamorphism
b. solidification
c. erosion
d. chiseling
A. deposition
B. weathering
C. erosion
D. compaction and cementation
8. A type of rock that forms deep within
the Earth when magma solidifies is
called
a. sedimentary.
c. organic.
b. metamorphic.
d. igneous.
10. Earth scientists classify the three
main types of rock into smaller groups
according to
a. composition and c. color and
texture.
luster.
b. density and
d. streak and
hardness.
cleavage.