This challenging worksheet has students answer multiple-choice questions, and fill in blanks to practice rocks and minerals skills.
It includes 9 questions across 2 sections for focused practice.
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Rocks and Minerals
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which statement best explains why the rock cycle has no beginning or end?
A) Rocks only form one time and never change
B) Each rock type can be changed into any other rock type through natural processes
C) Only igneous rocks can start the cycle
D) Sedimentary rocks cannot become igneous rocks
2. A mineral scratches fluorite (hardness 4) but is scratched by quartz (hardness 7). What could its hardness be?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 5
D) 8
3. Which type of rock would you most likely find near an active volcano?
A) sedimentary
B) metamorphic
C) igneous
D) fossil-bearing
4. Why are fossils almost never found in igneous or metamorphic rocks?
A) These rocks are too soft to preserve fossils
B) Extreme heat or pressure destroys any fossils that may have been present
C) Only ocean animals leave fossils
D) Fossils only form in rocks younger than 100 years
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. Pumice floats on water because it is full of trapped gas bubbles.
2. Calcite is a mineral that fizzes when you put acid on it.
3. The oldest layers of sedimentary rock are found at the bottom of a rock formation.
4. Anthracite is a hard, shiny form of coal that burns very cleanly.
5. The Hawaiian Islands were formed by volcanic eruptions that built up layers of basalt over time.
Rocks and Minerals
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which statement best explains why the rock cycle has no beginning or end?
A) Rocks only form one time and never change
B) Each rock type can be changed into any other rock type through natural processes
C) Only igneous rocks can start the cycle
D) Sedimentary rocks cannot become igneous rocks
2. A mineral scratches fluorite (hardness 4) but is scratched by quartz (hardness 7). What could its hardness be?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 5
D) 8
3. Which type of rock would you most likely find near an active volcano?
A) sedimentary
B) metamorphic
C) igneous
D) fossil-bearing
4. Why are fossils almost never found in igneous or metamorphic rocks?
A) These rocks are too soft to preserve fossils
B) Extreme heat or pressure destroys any fossils that may have been present
C) Only ocean animals leave fossils
D) Fossils only form in rocks younger than 100 years
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) Pumice floats on water because it is full of trapped gas bubbles.
2) Calcite is a mineral that fizzes when you put acid on it.
3) The oldest layers of sedimentary rock are found at the bottom of a rock formation.
4) Anthracite is a hard, shiny form of coal that burns very cleanly.
5) The Hawaiian Islands were formed by volcanic eruptions that built up layers of basalt over time.
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