Name: __________________________ Hour: ___ Due Date: _______________ Date: _______________
Standard 3 Objectives 1 & 2, TASA, Rock Cycle; Eighth Grade Integrated Science
Directions: Use the program on rocks and minerals to answer the following questions. After beginning the
program, select ROCK CYCLE from the Main Menu. Read and consider each slide completely and
critically with Answer the questions as carefully as possible. Remember, when you are finished, it will be
assumed that you understand the material that was covered in the program.
If you have questions while using the software, make sure you raise you hand and ask.
1. What are the three basic rock types?
2. _____________________ type of rock originates when molten rock cools and solidifies.
3. _____________________ is the name for molten rock under the earths surface.
4. The process of molten rock cooling and solidifying is called, ________________________ .
5. One type of molten rock that solidifies on the Earth’s surface is called
or
Lava
.
6. One type of molten rock that solidifies beneath the Earth’s surface is called ____________________ .
7. A process which slowly breaks up rock on the earths surface is called _____________________ .
8. Rock fragments of all sizes are picked up and transported by agents of ____________________ .
9. List the five agents of erosion.
Gravity
10. The particles and dissolved substances that are deposited are called ______________________ .
11. Conversion to rock is a process called _________________________ .
12. List the two ways sediments are joined together to form sedimentary rock.
13. What are three examples of sedimentary rock?
14. Sedimentary rock, buried deep beneath the earths surface, in the presence of great heat and pressure
will go through a process called ________________________ .
15. Rock subjected to great heat and pressure underneath the earths surface changes to ________________________
rock.
16. Rock that is in a high temperature metamorphic environment subjected to directional force may easily ________ .
17. When metamorphic rock is under even greater heat and pressure it may melt and create ____________ .
18. Is the same pattern always followed in the rock cycle? Check one.
❍ Yes
❍ No
❍ Can’t Tell
19. If sedimentary rock is exposed at the earths surface, what will it form? ______________________
20. Igneous rock that is under the earths surface subjected to great heat and pressure will become
____________________ rock.
21. Metamorphic rock that is exposed at the earths surface will become _______________________ .
22. Igneous rock exposed to extreme heat and pressure underneath the earths surface can melt and become
__________________ .
23. Label the following chart. (Follow the Arrows, they are in the opposite direction.)