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Practice Questions: Metamorphic Rocks

1. Base your answer to the following question on the information below.

A student on a field trip in New York State collected a sample of metamorphic bedrock containing bands

of coarse-grained crystals of plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, quartz, and mica.

Identify the metamorphic rock found by the student.

2. Which rock is only formed by regional metamorphism?

A) slate

B) hornfels

C) dunite

D) marble

3. Base your answer to the following question on the geologic cross section below. Location A is within the

metamorphic rock.

The metamorphic rock at location A is most likely

A) marble

B) quartzite

C) phyllite

D) slate

4. Wavy bands of light and dark minerals visible in gneiss

5. Base your answer to the following question on The rock

bedrock probably formed from the

shown below has a foliated texture and contains the

minerals amphibole, quartz, and feldspar arranged in

A) cementing together of individual miner grains

coarse-grained bands.

B) cooling and crystallization of magma

C) evaporation of an ancient ocean

D) heat and pressure during metamorphism

Which rock is shown?

A) slate

B) dunite

C) gneiss

D) quartzite

Practice Questions: Metamorphic Rocks