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Practice Questions Sedimentary Rocks

Practice Questions: Sedimentary Rocks

1. Which mineral precipitates from oceans and forms rock

salt?

A) quartz

B) fluorite

C) halite

D) olivine

2. Most rocks that form from fragmental rock particles are

classified as

A) extrusive igneous

B) intrusive igneous

C) clastic sedimentary

D) chemical sedimentary

3. Base your answer to the following question on the drawings of six sedimentary rocks labeled A through F.

Most of the rocks shown were formed by

A) volcanic eruptions and crystallization

B) compaction and/or cementation

C) heat and pressure

D) melting and/or solidification

4. The diagram below shows a drill core of sediment that

5. Which type of rock most likely contains fossils?

was taken from the bottom of a lake.

A) scoria

B) gabbro

C) schist

D) shale

Which types of rock would most likely form from

compaction and cementation of these sediments?

A) sandstone and limestone

B) shale and coal

C) breccia and rock salt

D) conglomerate and siltstone

Practice Questions Sedimentary Rocks