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Study Guide – The Rock Cycle

Section 1

  1. A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter is called ______.
  1. The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock is called ______.
  1. Rocks have been used by humans throughout history for tools, weapons and ______.
  1. A rock at the Earth’s surface is primarily affected by forces of _____.
  2. heat and pressure
  3. pressure only
  4. weathering and erosion
  5. cooling
  1. A rock deep underground is primarily affected by forces of _____
  2. extreme heat and pressure
  3. cooling
  4. weathering and erosion
  5. heat only
  1. What kind of new material is formed when metamorphic rock melts?

______

  1. What kind of new rock is formed when igneous rock is subjected to weathering, erosion, compaction and cementation?

______

  1. What new kind of rock is formed when sedimentary rock is subjected to heat and pressure?

______

Match the correct description with the correct term.

_____10. magma in the Earth’s crust that has risen to a. magma

the surface and cools and solidifies.

_____11. rock that is forced downward and is b. sediment

exposed to heat and pressure

_____12. rocks that are partially or completely meltedc. igneous rock

_____13. igneous rock at the Earth’s surface that is

weathered and wears awayd. sedimentary rock

_____14. sediment that washed down into rivers and

oceans and is pressed and cemented togethere. metamorphic rock

  1. The process in which water, ice and heat break down rock is called ______.
  1. One reason that weathering is important is because it breaks rock down into fragments, or ______, from which sedimentary rocks are made.
  1. The process by which sediment is removed from its source is called ______.
  1. During ______, sediment is deposited in bodies of water and other low-lying areas.
  1. Sedimentary rock can be made when sediment is pressed and cemented together by ______dissolved in water.
  1. Some ______rock is made when sediment is squeezed by the weight of the rock materials that lies above it.
  1. Movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth’s surface is called ______.
  1. When uplifted rocks reach ______, weathering, erosion, and deposition begin.

Study Guide – Igneous Rock

Section 2

  1. What kind of rock forms when hot, liquid rock, or magma, cools and solidifies?

______

  1. What two factors affect the type of igneous rock that is formed?

______

  1. The material that igneous rock is made up of is called ______.
  1. The longer it takes for a rock to cool and solidify, the more time ______have to grow, giving the rock a(n) ______grain.
  1. The more quickly igneous rock cools and solidifies, the ______the grain.
  1. The igneous rock that has cooled most quickly will be found on the ______of a volcano.

8. Intrusive igneous rock usually has a(n) ______texture.

9. Igneous rock that forms from lava, or magma that erupts onto the Earth’s surface, is called

______.

10. Lava can either erupt or flow from long cracks in the Earth’s crust called ______.

11. When a large amount of lava flows out of fissures onto land, the lava can cover a large area

and form a plain called a(n) ______.

Study Guide – Metamorphic Rock

Section 3

  1. What kind of rocks are rocks in which the structure, texture or composition have been changed? ______

2. What force or forces can create metamorphic rocks?

______

  1. The heat and pressure at which some metamorphic rocks originally form allow them to sometimes remain ______at pressures and temperatures that would melt other rock.
  1. Pressure caused by large movement within the crust sometimes cause the ______in metamorphic rocks to align themselves in parallel bands.
  1. During ______, rock is heated by nearby magma.
  1. The effect of heat on rock decreases as the rock’s ______from the magma increases and its ______decreases.
  1. When pressure builds up in rock which is located under other rock formations, ______occurs.
  1. Regional metamorphism occurs deep in the Earth’s ______.

Study Guide – Sedimentary Rock

Section 4

  1. Over time, grains of sand may be compacted and cemented together to form a rock called ______
  1. When sediment is deposited in layers and compacted, ______is formed.
  1. Dissolved minerals separated from water and become a natural ______that binds the sedimentary rock together.
  1. Sedimentary rocks form at or near the Earth’s ______.
  1. The most noticeable feature of sedimentary rock is often its layers or ______.
  1. Rock or mineral fragments are called ______.
  1. Clastic sedimentary rock can have coarse-, medium-, or fine-grained ______.
  1. Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize out of solution, such as sea-water, to become rock is called ______sedimentary rock.
  1. Sedimentary rock that forms from the remains, or fossils, of plants and animals is called ______sedimentary rock.
  1. Limestone made from the calcium carbonate from skeletons and shells of sea creatures is called ______limestone.
  1. An organic sedimentary rock that forms from the action of heat and pressure on plant material over millions of years is called ______.
  1. What is the process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers?
  2. mud cracking
  3. weathering
  4. stratification
  5. erosion

Study Guide – Identifying Minerals

Pages 70-73

1. The way a surface reflects light is called ______.

2. The color of a mineral in powdered form is the mineral’s ______.

3. What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?

5. What is the softest mineral on the Mohs scale? The hardest?

6. What does it mean if a mineral has the property of optics?

7. The special property of calcite and fluorite that causes them to glow under ultraviolet light is

called ______.

8. A Geiger counter can be used to detect ______in a mineral.