Rocks Quiz

Question 1

Igneous

Answer 1

Fire formed by cooling lava or magma

Question 2

Sedimentary

Answer 2

Made from layers of squished-together dirt and old bits of rocks of sediment

Question 3

Metamorphic

Answer 3

A large rock formed by heat and pressure beneath earth’s surface

Question 4

Fine Texture

Answer 4

Very small minerals that look like speckles

Question 5

Course texture

Answer 5

Mineral grains that are large enough to be seen

Question 6

Porphyry

Answer 6

A combination of large and small grains

Question 7

Cementation

Answer 7

The process of water carrying natural cements like silica coats sediments, and binds them together

Question 8

Clastic

Answer 8

Sediments made of fragments of other old rocks and minerals

Question 9

Chemical sedimentary

Answer 9

Formed when minerals form water stick together and harden.

Question 10

Organic Sedimentary

Answer 10

Organic sedimentary rock is made from dead plants and animals squished together

Question 11

Conglomerate

Answer 11

Large rounded stores cemended together

Question 12

Breccias of sand

Answer 12

A large sharp - edged fragment cemended together

Question 13

Sandstone

Answer 13

A small grains of sand cemented together

Question 14

Foliated

Answer 14

The rock has layers

Question 15

Explain the rock cycle

Answer 15

1. Magma cools and solidifies to form igneous rock.
2. Igneous rock breaks down into sediments.
3. Sediments compact and cement together to form sedimentary rock.
4. Sedimentary rock gets heated and pressed to form metamorphic rock.
5. Metamorphic rock melts back into magma.