Unit 3 Rock Type Test (#9 On Your Checklist)
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 55
DO THIS AFTER YOU FINISH 3. 2, 3. 3, AND 3. 4
Questions and Answers
- 1.
![When rocks grind and squeeze past each other, _____ metamorphism can occur.
A. contact
B. dynamic
C. impact
D. regional
- ProProfs]( "When rocks grind and squeeze past each other, _____ metamorphism can occur.
A. contact
B. dynamic
C. impact
D. regional")
When rocks grind and squeeze past each other, _____ metamorphism can occur.- A. contact
- B. dynamic
- C. impact
- D. regional
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 2.
![Which of the following is not a metamorphic agent?
A. Heat
B. Pressure
C. Hot water
D. Glacial meltwater
- ProProfs]( "Which of the following is not a metamorphic agent?
A. Heat
B. Pressure
C. Hot water
D. Glacial meltwater")
Which of the following is not a metamorphic agent?- A. Heat
- B. Pressure
- C. Hot water
- D. Glacial meltwater
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 3.The increase in temperature with depth in the Earth is called the _____ gradient.
- 4.
![To what depth below Earth's surface do you have to go before the pressure and temperature cause rocks to melt?
A. At depths of about 50 to 200 km below Earth's surface
B. At any point below Earth's crust
C. At the boundary between Earth's mantle and core
D. At depths of about 500 to 1000 km below Earth's surface
- ProProfs]( "To what depth below Earth's surface do you have to go before the pressure and temperature cause rocks to melt?
A. At depths of about 50 to 200 km below Earth's surface
B. At any point below Earth's crust
C. At the boundary between Earth's mantle and core
D. At depths of about 500 to 1000 km below Earth's surface")
To what depth below Earth's surface do you have to go before the pressure and temperature cause rocks to melt?- A. At depths of about 50 to 200 km below Earth's surface
- B. At any point below Earth's crust
- C. At the boundary between Earth's mantle and core
- D. At depths of about 500 to 1000 km below Earth's surface
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 5.
![Which of the following is not an intrusive igneous body?
A. Batholith
B. Stock
C. Dike
D. Lahar
- ProProfs]( "Which of the following is not an intrusive igneous body?
A. Batholith
B. Stock
C. Dike
D. Lahar")
Which of the following is not an intrusive igneous body?- A. Batholith
- B. Stock
- C. Dike
- D. Lahar
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 6.
![Igneous rocks are classified based upon their ______________.
A. texture and mineralogy
B. density and hardness
C. fluorescence and texture
D. mineralogy and density
- ProProfs]( "Igneous rocks are classified based upon their ______________.
A. texture and mineralogy
B. density and hardness
C. fluorescence and texture
D. mineralogy and density")
Igneous rocks are classified based upon their ______________.- A. texture and mineralogy
- B. density and hardness
- C. fluorescence and texture
- D. mineralogy and density
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 7.
![Which of the following is NOT a sedimentary structure?
A. Mud cracks
B. Cross-beds
C. Magma emplacement
D. Ripple marks
- ProProfs]( "Which of the following is NOT a sedimentary structure?
A. Mud cracks
B. Cross-beds
C. Magma emplacement
D. Ripple marks")
Which of the following is NOT a sedimentary structure?- A. Mud cracks
- B. Cross-beds
- C. Magma emplacement
- D. Ripple marks
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 8.Remains or traces of organisms preserved in rock are called _______.
- 9.
![Coal is formed in which of the following depositional environments?
A. A beach
B. A river channel
C. A swamp
D. A glacier
- ProProfs]( "Coal is formed in which of the following depositional environments?
A. A beach
B. A river channel
C. A swamp
D. A glacier")
Coal is formed in which of the following depositional environments?- A. A beach
- B. A river channel
- C. A swamp
- D. A glacier
- A.
A
- B.
B
- C.
C
- D.
D
- 10.WHAT ARE THE 3 GROUPS OF ROCKS (PICK ONLY 3)
- A.
Igneous
- B.
Basalt
- C.
Castic
- D.
Sedimentary
- E.
Metamorphic
- F.
Crystalized
- G.
Intrusive
- H.
Magma Based
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