Science Chapter 10 Test

Question 1

What do you call geologists who specialize in rocks

Answer 1

Petrologist

Question 2

Petrologists look at what three things of the individual grains to classify rocks

Answer 2

Size shape and pattern

Question 3

What are rocks made of

Answer 3

One or more minerals

Question 4

What type of rock appears to have been molten in the past

Answer 4

Igneous

Question 5

When do young earth geologists believe the first igneous rocks were created

Answer 5

Day 3

Question 6

What rock is the original basement rock

Answer 6

Granite

Question 7

What type of coarse-grained igneous rock has very large interlocking crystals

Answer 7

Pegmatite

Question 8

What Word describes a rock with crystals so small you can’t see them with your eyes or even with a microscope

Answer 8

Aphantic

Question 9

Which rock floats

Answer 9

Pumice

Question 10

Which rock is called volcanic glass

Answer 10

Obsidian

Question 11

How do we use igneous rocks today

Answer 11

Statues, monuments, building materials

Question 12

Which type of rock appears to be made of rocks bonded together

Answer 12

Sedimentary

Question 13

What event do creation geologists believe laid down most of the sedimentary rock?

Answer 13

The flood

Question 14

What are clasts

Answer 14

Pieces of rock

Question 15

Sedimentary rocks are made of _______, ________, and _______ particles

Answer 15

Pebbles sand clay

Question 16

Which type of rock often contains fossils?

Answer 16

Sedimentary

Question 17

Which type of sedimentary rock is made by chemical precipitation

Answer 17

Nonclastic

Question 18

Halite can exist in nature as vertical pipelike masses called what?

Answer 18

Salt domes

Question 19

Compare the size of sandstone, siltstone, and shale

Answer 19

Sandstone-biggest particles
Siltstone-medium particles
Shale-small particles

Question 20

Which type of rock has been changed over time

Answer 20

Metamorphic

Question 21

Metamorphic rocks could have been _______, __________, and even other ________ rocks

Answer 21

Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

Question 22

Which type of metamorphic rocks have their crystals arranged into parallel layers or bands

Answer 22

Foliated

Question 23

Marble is metamorphic _____________

Answer 23

Limestone

Question 24

How do we use metamorphic rocks today?

Answer 24

Used in buildings, decoration, floor coverings

Question 25

Which type of rock has been changed over time

Answer 25

Metamorphic

Question 26

Metamorphic rocks could have been _______, __________, and even other ________ rocks

Answer 26

Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

Question 27

How long do old earth geologists believe it took for the sedimentary rocks to form?

Answer 27

Billions of years

Question 28

How long do old earth geologists think the rock cycle has been happening

Answer 28

Beginning of the earth

Question 29

Where do old earth geologists believe most rocks will return

Answer 29

To the mantle

Question 30

Which type of rock is granite

Answer 30

Intrusive igneous

Question 31

Which type of rock is basalt and andesite

Answer 31

Extrusive igneous

Question 32

Which type of rock is conglomerate and breccia

Answer 32

Clastic sedimentary

Question 33

Which type of rock is limestone and chalk

Answer 33

Nonclastic sedimentary

Question 34

What type of rock is slate and gneiss

Answer 34

Foliated metamorphic

Question 35

What type of rock is marble and quartzite

Answer 35

Nonfoliated metamorphic