10. A museum is creating a new geology exhibit about rocks from South America. The museum curator is working on the information labels for two different rock samples. The information on the labels is as follows:

Question

Rock A formed from small pieces of rock.
Rock B formed from liquid rock in a different place.
Rocks A and B formed at about the same time.

The curator wants to put information about rock type on the labels. Are Rocks A and B the same or different types of rock?

The rocks are

Responses

a
the same type because they both formed from rock material.
the same type because they both formed from rock material.

b
the same type because they formed at the same time.
the same type because they formed at the same time.

c
different types because they formed in different places.
different types because they formed in different places.

d
different types because they formed in different ways.

Answer 1

The correct response is:

d different types because they formed in different ways.

Rock A formed from small pieces of rock, which typically makes it a sedimentary rock, while Rock B formed from liquid rock (magma or lava), which makes it an igneous rock. Therefore, they are different types based on their formation processes.