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On page 33 in your notebook: What is one question you still have about rocks or minerals?

Minerals and Rocks Test
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Question 1
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True or False: Each major group of rocks only follows one pathway through the rock cycle.
False

Question 2
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What is a rock generally made up of?
Minerals and other materials

Question 3
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What type of rock forms from the cooling of lava above the ground or the cooling of magma below the surface?
Igneous

Question 4
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What is the process where dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together?
Cementation

Question 5
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Chalk formed from sediments made of skeletons of microscopic living things in the ocean must be what type of sedimentary rock?
Organic rock

Question 6
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Heat and pressure deep within the Earth can change any type of rock into what?
Metamorphic rock.

Question 7
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What does it mean if a metamorphic rock is nonfoliated?
It does not have layers.

Question 8
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In the rock cycle, what type or types of rocks can form sedimentary rocks?
Any type of rock

Question 9
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What is a sedimentary rock made up of rounded fragments of other rocks called?
Conglomerate

Question 10
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True or false: Sandstone changing into quartzite is an example of the process that forms sedimentary rocks.
False

Question 11
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True or false: The most common extrusive rock is basalt.
True

Question 12
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How do geologists describe a rock’s texture?
The size, shape, and pattern of the rock’s grains

Question 13
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A rock that cools very quickly when it forms will have what type of texture?
Smooth and shiny with no visible grain

Question 14
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Where do most metamorphic rocks form?
Deep below the surface of the Earth

Question 15
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What is the most abundant intrusive rock?
Granite

Question 16
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A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments squeeze together is called what?
Clastic rock

Question 17
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How do geologists classify metamorphic rocks?
By the arrangement of the grains that make up the rock

Question 18
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The series of processes on the Earth and below the Earth’s surface that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called what?
The rock cycle

Question 19
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True or false: Particles of a rock called grains give a rock its texture.
True

Question 20
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True or false: Examples of clastic rocks, which are made of particles of other rocks, include sandstone, shale, and breccia.
True

Question 21
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When all the grains of a rock are large and easy to see, they are described as what?
Coarse-grained

Question 23
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The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it is called what?
Deposition

Question 24
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True or false: Igneous rocks that formed beneath the Earth’s surface are extrusive rocks.
False

Question 25
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What does foliated mean?
When a metamorphic rock’s grains are arranged in parallel layers

Question 26
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What type of crystal system does halite have?
Cubic

Question 27
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Why is coal not a mineral?
It is made from the remains of plants and animals

Question 28
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What is the term used to describe how a mineral reflects light from its surface?
Luster

Question 29
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What is the color of a mineral’s powder called?
Streak

Question 30
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What is a mineral?
A solid, inorganic, crystalline solid, with a definite chemical make up