Rock Cycle (LMMS)
  • 1. Which is NOT a type of rock?
A) minerals
B) sedimentary
C) metamorphic
D) Igneous
  • 2. What type of rock crumbles easily?
A) minerals
B) metamorphic
C) sedimentary
D) igneous
  • 3. What type of rock may be glassy & shiny?
A) igneous
B) metamorphic
C) sedimentary
D) minerals
  • 4. What type of rock has ribbon like layers?
A) igneous
B) metamorphic
C) sedimentary
D) minerals
  • 5. When magma cools it becomes what type of rock?
A) sedimentary
B) igneous
C) metamorphic
D) minerals
  • 6. Metamorphic rock is formed by
A) compaction
B) melting
C) cooling
D) heat and pressure
  • 7. Sedimentary rock is created by
A) heat & pressure
B) melting
C) weathering
D) compaction & cementation
  • 8. Weathering produces
A) volcanos
B) igneous rocks
C) sediments
D) hurricanes
  • 9. The movement of sediments by wind or water
A) weathering
B) compaction
C) erosion
D) transportation
  • 10. the laying down of sediment carried by wind, water or ice
A) deposition
B) erosion
C) compaction
D) nap time
  • 11. Sedimentary rock is made of many layers
A) false
B) true
  • 12. Which rock is most easily broken down (weathered)?
A) sedimentary
B) metamorphic
C) rock & roll
D) igneous
  • 13. We shaved the crayon in the crayon lab to demonstrate which rock cycle process?
A) weathering
B) heat and pressure
C) compaction
D) deposition
  • 14. Rocks are made up of minerals
A) true
B) false
  • 15. All rocks have the same characteristics
A) true
B) false
  • 16. All rocks can be weathered into sediments
A) true
B) false
  • 17. A minerals must be
A) inorganic (not living)
B) a solid
C) all of these
D) formed by nature (not man made)
  • 18. When molten rock is under the earth's surface it's called
A) hot stuff
B) igneous
C) magma
D) lava
  • 19. When we melted the crayon over the candle we were simulating
A) compaction
B) melting
C) erosion
D) weathering
  • 20. The crayon lab simulated
A) sedimentary rock
B) all of these
C) igneous rock
D) metamorphic rock
  • 21. Optional Exceeds: Use the following words to explain how the crayon lab demonstrated the processes of the rock cycle (metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary, weathering, erosion, deposition, compacting, cementing, sediment, magma, cooling, melting)
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