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Junior Cycle Geography: Rock types

How often Rock types comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Rock types, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Rock types.

(a)Basalt at the Giant's Causeway is which type of rock?
  1. Sedimentary
  2. Igneous
  3. Metamorphic
(b)What is limestone mostly made from?
  1. Grains of sand from a hot desert
  2. Lava that cooled slowly deep underground
  3. Shells and skeletons of sea creatures
(c)Limestone changed by great heat and pressure becomes?
  1. Marble
  2. Sandstone
  3. Granite
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(a) Igneous

(b) Shells and skeletons of sea creatures

(c) Marble

Your turn: Common Level questions on Rock types.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q3B
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q9A
2022Q1A

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Rock types questions

Rock types, 3 marks

Why does granite in the Wicklow Mountains have large crystals?

  1. Lava cooled very fast at the surface
  2. Layers of mud were pressed together
  3. Magma cooled slowly deep underground
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Magma cooled slowly deep underground

Slow cooling deep in the crust gives crystals time to grow, so granite has large crystals of quartz, feldspar and mica. Basalt cooled fast at the surface, so its crystals are tiny.

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