Rock Cycle Quiz Study Guide

Know the following vocabulary:

Intrusive Magma Extrusive Cooling Igneous Stratification

Metamorphic Rocks Weathering Rock Cycle Sedimentation Sedimentary Rocks

Answer the following questions:

1.  Where are igneous rocks formed?

2.  What are the processes involved for the creation of a sedimentary rock?

3.  What is evidence that sedimentary rocks are affected by plate tectonics?

4.  Name the type of plate boundary where metamorphic rocks form as a result of heat and pressure.

5.  If an igneous rock is subjected to heat and pressure, into what kind of rock will it become?

6.  What has to happen to a sedimentary rock for it to become a metamorphic rock?

7.  What has to happen to magma to become an igneous rock?

8.  Name three factors that determine if rock melts?

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______

9.  Stratification, mud cracks, and ripple marks are features you will find in what rock type?

10.  What happens to sedimentary rock in an oceanic subduction zone? What type of rock will it become?

11.  What type of rock forms at a divergent plate boundary?

12.  How does crystallization affect the composition of magma?

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13.  What are three things that must happen for sedimentary rock to change into igneous?

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______

14.  Crystallization is one feature found in ______rocks.