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Practice Questions: Sedimentary Rocks

The document contains 15 multiple choice practice questions about sedimentary rocks. Most of the questions test the examinee's understanding of how different types of sedimentary rocks form through processes like compaction, cementation, and deposition of sediments in various environments. Key sedimentary rocks mentioned include sandstone, shale, limestone, conglomerate, and siltstone. The questions also cover features indicative of sedimentary rocks like layering, as well as fossils commonly found in sedimentary rocks like shale.

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Practice Questions: Sedimentary Rocks

The document contains 15 multiple choice practice questions about sedimentary rocks. Most of the questions test the examinee's understanding of how different types of sedimentary rocks form through processes like compaction, cementation, and deposition of sediments in various environments. Key sedimentary rocks mentioned include sandstone, shale, limestone, conglomerate, and siltstone. The questions also cover features indicative of sedimentary rocks like layering, as well as fossils commonly found in sedimentary rocks like shale.

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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 was taken from the bottom of a lake. 5. Which type of rock most likely contains fossils?
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
6. The profile below shows the average diameter of sediment that was sorted and deposited in specific areas
A, B, C, and D by a stream entering an ocean.

As compaction and cementation of these sediments eventually occur, which area will become siltstone?
A) A B) B C) C D) D
7. A rock is composed of several large, rounded
pebbles and sand grains cemented together. Which 12. Which type of rock is likely to show ripple marks
inference about the rock is best supported by this and fossils?
description? A) intrusive igneous B) extrusive igneous
A) The rock is older than the pebbles. C) metamorphic D) sedimentary
B) The rock is igneous. 13. Base your answer to the following question on
C) The rock is sedimentary. the diagrams below of five rock samples.
D) The rock resulted from evaporation of sea water.
8. Which rock is made up of angular fragments of rock
held together by a natural cement?
A) breccia B) scoria
C) granite D) quartzite
9. Which statement about the formation of a rock is
best supported by geologic evidence?
A) Magma must be weathered before it can change
to metamorphic rock.
B) Sediment must be compacted and cemented
before it can change to sedimentary rock.
Which sample is composed of sediments 0.006
C) Sedimentary rock must melt before it can change
centimeter to 0.2 centimeter in size that were
to metamorphic rock.
compacted and cemented together?
D) Metamorphic rock must melt before it can
change to sedimentary rock. A) conglomerate B) sandstone
10. Which land-derived sedimentary rock could have C) gneiss D) granite
formed by the compaction and cementation of 14. Which sequence of events occurs in the formation of
particles smaller than 0.0003 centimeter in diameter? a sedimentary rock?
A) shale B) siltstone
C) sandstone D) limestone A)

11. Which feature is characteristic of sedimentary rocks? B)


A) layering B) foliation
C) distorted structure D) glassy texture C)
D)
15. Which rock was most likely formed from pebble
sized sediment deposited in shallow water at an ocean
shoreline?
A) shale B) basalt
C) siltstone D) conglomerate

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