Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the Web resources, study guide, and tutorial, review what you have learned with these quizzes:
 
The Rock Cycle: Three Types of Rock
 
Rock Cycle Multiple Choice Quiz
 

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 3, Key Concepts 1,2,4, and 5, and Chapter Test

Web Exploration

What is Mineralogy?
Rocks are composed of minerals. This mineralogy database describes 3700 minerals that make up the earth's crust.

The Tectonic Rock Cycle
Explore this diagram to see the relationship between the main rock classes and their plate tectonic setting.

Paul Smith's The Rock Cycle
Designed for British high school students, this Web site has clear simple diagrams and explanations. Try the quiz that is included.

Rock Classification Chart
This rock classification chart helps you make sense of the sub-classes of the three main rock types.

Rock Cycle Diagram Quiz
Fill in the blanks in this diagram of the rock cycle from an inclass PowerPoint Presentation.

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