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Rock and Fossil Unit

1. What are bones an example of?
a. Body Fossil
b. Trace Fossil
c. Cast Fossil
d. Fun Fossil
2. True or False? The rock cycle ends.
a. True
b. False
3. What term tells you something about an object?
a. Property
b. Style
c. Identification
d. None of the answers mentioned above
4. What are the three main types of rocks?
a. Igneous. Meatta, and sedimentary
b. Sediments, metamorphic, and igneous
c. Metamorphic, genius, and sedimentary
d. Igneous, metamorphic, and igneous
5. What is the type of igneous rock that is formed when magma
is cooled above ground?
a. Intrusive
b. Extrusive
c. Outside
d. Exclusive
6. Which type of rock is formed when either an igneous or
sedimentary rock has been changed by heat, pressure, or
both?
a. Igneous
b. Metamorphic
c. Sedimentary

d. Symmetrical
7. Which type of rock can go through the rock cycle?
a. Igneous
b. Metamorphic
c. Sedimentary
d. All of the above
8. What type of fossil is the actual remains of the organism?
a. Body fossil
b. Trace fossil
c. Cast fossil
d. Fun fossil
9. Footprints are an example of what type of fossil?
a. Body fossil
b. Trace fossil
c. Cast fossil
d. Fun fossil
10.
True or false? There are many types of igneous rocks
depending on how the rock was melted or cooled.
a. True
b. False
11.
Which term describes how easily a mineral is
scratched?
a. Luster
b. Hardness
c. Streak
d. Cleavage
12.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Which term describes how a mineral reflects light?

Luster
Hardness
Streak
Cleavage

13.
What is formed on the earth and is made of different
minerals?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Can
Mineral
Chair
Rock

14.
What is the term that describes when a mineral breaks
along a flat surface?
a. Luster
b. Hardness
c. Streak
d. Cleavage
15.
a.
b.
c.
d.

What is the term that describes melted rocks?

Volcano
Magma
Igneous
Rock

16.
True or False? A paleontologist is the name of a scientist
who studies fossils?
a. True
b. False
17.
a.
b.
c.
d.

What is an element of nature that causes erosion?

Fire
Wind
Sedimentary
Trees

a.
b.
c.
d.

What is the rock that is also called a Sandwich Rock?

Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
All of the above

18.

19.

What does a geologist study?

a. A scientist who studies fossils to learn more about Earth
b. A scientist who studies rock and land to learn more
about Earth

c. A scientist who studies tress to learn more about Earth

d. A scientist who studies the sky to learn more about
Earth
20.
True or False? Fossils do NOT give information about
organisms that lived long ago.
a. True
b. False