Deck 7: Rocks and Minerals

Question 1

Which represents the atom of helium, a noble gas with an atomic number of 2?

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram includes high silica rocks?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Answer 2

Both Volcanic and Plutonic

Question 3

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram includes low silica rocks?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Answer 3

Both Volcanic and Plutonic

Question 4

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram forms deep in the earth?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Question 5

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram forms at the surface?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Question 6

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram represents large-grained rocks?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Question 7

Use the Venn diagram shown below to answer this question.


-Which section of the diagram represents small-grained rocks?

A) Volcanic
B) Both Volcanic and Plutonic
C) Plutonic

Question 8

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 1 on the diagram. Example: If you believe that metamorphic rock is converted to magma by cementation and compaction then chose answer a) for Step 1.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 9

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 2 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 10

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 3 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 11

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 4 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 12

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 5 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 13

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 6 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 14

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 7 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 15

The following diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle.


-The diagram illustrates the Rock Cycle. Match the letters below to the step number 8 on the diagram.

A) Cementation and compaction (lithification)
B) Heat and pressure
C) Weathering, transportation, deposition
D) Cooling and solidification
E) Melting

Question 16

Complete the following concept map.


-Complete the following concept map for number 1.

A) Biochemical
B) Chemical
C) Clastic
D) Evaporation

Question 17

Complete the following concept map.


-Complete the following concept map for number 2.

A) Biochemical
B) Chemical
C) Clastic
D) Evaporation

Question 18

Complete the following concept map.


-Complete the following concept map for number 3.

A) Biochemical
B) Chemical
C) Clastic
D) Evaporation

Question 19

Complete the following concept map.


-Complete the following concept map for number 4.

A) Biochemical
B) Chemical
C) Clastic
D) Evaporation

Question 20

How many different kinds of minerals have been identified?

A) Less than 10
B) Between 10 and 100
C) Hundreds

Question 21

What determines the atomic number of an element?

A) The number of electrons
B) The number of protons
C) The number of neutrons

Question 22

What determines the atomic mass of an element?

A) The number of protons and electrons
B) The number of neutrons and electrons
C) The number of protons and neutrons

Question 23

Which type of chemical bond is usually the strongest?

A) Ionic
B) Van der Waals
C) Covalent

Question 24

Which of the following would be a small grained igneous rock?

A) Limestone
B) Basalt
C) Marble
D) Quartz

Question 25

Which of the following experienced an environment where it was heated causing mineral grains to get larger?

A) Limestone
B) Basalt
C) Marble
D) Quartz

Question 26

Which formed in a low temperature, marine setting?

A) Limestone
B) Basalt
C) Marble
D) Quartz

Question 27

Which of the following would have a unique chemical composition and a crystalline structure?

A) Limestone
B) Basalt
C) Marble
D) Quartz

Question 28

Which one of these is a high silica rock that cooled slowly?

A) Granite
B) Rhyolite
C) Gabbro
D) Basalt

Question 29

Which one of these is a low silica rock that cooled slowly?

A) Granite
B) Rhyolite
C) Gabbro
D) Basalt

Question 30

Which one of these is a high silica rock that cooled at the surface?

A) Granite
B) Rhyolite
C) Gabbro
D) Basalt

Question 31

Which one of these is a low silica rock that cooled at the surface?

A) Granite
B) Rhyolite
C) Gabbro
D) Basalt

Question 32

Suppose you pick up a rock that formed from the sediments of weathered rocks. What type of rock have you found?

A) Clastic
B) Chemical
C) Biochemical

Question 33

Suppose you find a rock comprised mostly of decayed plant material? What type of rock have you found?

A) Clastic
B) Chemical
C) Biochemical

Question 34

Suppose you are told that the area where you lived was once a shallow sea that evaporated. What kind of rock are you most likely to find that is related to that time?

A) Clastic
B) Chemical
C) Biochemical

Question 35

What conditions are required to form parallel alignment of minerals sometimes found in a metamorphic rock?

A) Either heat or pressure
B) Pressure only
C) Heat only
D) Both heat and pressure

Question 36

Which metamorphic conditions may result in a foliation?

A) Contact metamorphism
B) Regional metamorphism
C) Both contact and regional metamorphism

Question 37

Where would you most likely find contact metamorphism?

A) Associated with a mountain belt
B) Associated with a volcano
C) Associated with a fault

Question 38

Where would you most likely find regional metamorphism?

A) Associated with a mountain belt
B) Associated with a volcano
C) Associated with a fault

Question 39

Which processes would change a metamorphic rock to an igneous rock?

A) Weathering, transport, and lithification
B) Melting and crystallization
C) Increased temperature and pressure

Question 40

Which processes would change an igneous rock to a sedimentary rock?

A) Weathering, transport, and lithification
B) Melting and crystallization
C) Increased temperature and pressure

Question 41

Which processes would change a sedimentary rock to a metamorphic rock?

A) Weathering, transport, and lithification
B) Melting and crystallization
C) Increased temperature and pressure

Question 42

Minerals have specific chemical compositions and describable structures.

Question 43

For each increase in hardness on the Moh's scale, the hardness increases by a factor of 10.

Question 44

Plutonic igneous rocks form at or very near the surface.

Question 45

The mineral grains of extrusive rocks are usually small compared to those of plutonic rocks.

Question 46

Metamorphic rocks melt and recrystallize.

Question 47

The rock cycle links different types of minerals to one another by processes.