Five quick tasks fill the single worksheet page of this 4th grade rock cycle check, and page 2 is the answer key. Students write the three main rock types, match basalt, limestone and marble to igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic, and answer two multiple choice questions on what breaks rock into sediment and what forms when lava cools. The last task is a four-box cycle diagram where they write melting and heat and pressure on two numbered arrows from a word bank.
“Name the three types of rock and sort examples into them.”
Questions 1 and 2.
“Identify the process that breaks rock into sediment and the rock that forms when lava cools.”
Questions 3 and 4.
“Label the processes that link rock types in the rock cycle.”
Question 5, arrows 1 and 2.
Question 1 gives three lines for the rock types. Question 2 is a table that pairs basalt, limestone and marble with the letters A, B and C.
Question 3 asks what breaks rock into sediment, with weathering, melting and cooling to choose from. Question 4 asks what forms when lava cools, with sedimentary rock, igneous rock and magma.
A small cycle through Sedimentary Rock, Metamorphic Rock, Magma and Igneous Rock. Two arrows are numbered for students to label with melting and heat and pressure.
Short answers for all five questions, with the two ticked choices for questions 3 and 4.
End of unit
Hand it out as a short check after the rock cycle unit. Five questions on one page are quick to mark with the key.
Reteach groups
Mark question 5 first. Students who swapped melting and heat and pressure are the ones to pull into a small group.
Before and after
Give it before the unit and again after. The same page shows what changed.
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