Chapter 8 Test - Rocks

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There is no upper limit to the size a sediment particle can have.

True

False

Sedimentary rocks can form into Metamorphic in the rock cycle by:

Heat & Force

Melting

Wind & Rain

Cooling

Earth is the only planet with sedimentary rocks?

True

False

Sediments only form as a result of the weathering of igneous rocks.

True

False

A rock is:

A naturally occurring, hard solid substance

An aggregate of minerals

Any hard, solid substance on earth

Only produced by cooling of magma

An example of igneous rocks is Basalt and Granite?

True

False

Metamorphic rocks turn into sediments by:

Heat & Force

Melting

Wind & Rain

Cooling

Magma forms into igneous rocks by:

Wind & Rain

Cooling

Heat & Force

Melting

Metamorphic rocks are when:

Rock has changed form from high temperature and pressure

Rocks made from sediments

Rocks found in the ocean

Rocks formed from cooling Magma

10.

Igneous rocks are:

Rocks made from sediments

Rocks formed from cooling Magma

Rocks made from the impact of weathering

Formed from from ash of a Volcano

11.

Where to sediments come from?

sediments accumulated as dust fell to Earth from outer space

rock weathering produces sediment

sediment is transported and deposited all over the Earth

there have always been sediments on Earth

12.

Granite is formed:
Hint: larger crystals are cooled more slowly

Below the ground

Above ground

13.

A mineral is:

A rock cycle

Solid, naturally occurring inorganic substance

Not naturally occurring

A rock

14.

Rocks and minerals are the same thing

True

False

15.

The outer layer of is the Earth is called the crust

True

False

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