Perfect if you are a student or you enjoy gaining more knowledge about rocks and minerals. If you fall in this group of people, then this quiz will assist you to measure how much you know.
Diamond scratches quartz and fluorite
Quartz scratches talc
Fluorite scratches talc
Apatite scratches fluorite
Heat turning sedimentary rock in the road into metamorphic rock
Water freezing and thawing inside cracks in the road
Oxygen reacting with iron on the surface of the road
Volcanic activity producing pressure at the road’s base
Freezing water
Running water
Blowing wind
Growing roots
Deposition
Weathering
Uplift
Erosion
There once was a large body of water there
The area was under intense heat and pressure
A volcano had erupted there long ago
A meteor hit the area long ago
Mineral composition
Rock cycle
Compaction and cementation
Transformation
Hardness
Magma
Mineral
Streak
Condensation
Erosion
Weathering
Compaction
Provide materials to make other rocks
Be changed by forces at Earth’s surface
Form other rocks
All of the above
Sedimentary
Igneous
Both a and b
Neither a nor b
Exposure to air
The presence of hot, watery fluids
Both a and b
Heat and pressure
pressure and uplift
Earthquakes and faulting
Erosion and deposition
Percolation and evaporation
Destroy matter
Create matter
Always create and destroy matter
Never create or destroy matter
Rock
Mineral
Mid-ocean ridge
Mountain
Erosion
Uplift
Weathering
Deposition
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