Quiz
Types of Rocks
Bell Work
Fossils
Earth History
100
Limestone is this type of rock
What is sedimentary?
100
This rock forms when molten rock cools and hardens
What is Igneous?
100
These are the three major rock types
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic?
100
Remains of a plant or animal embedded in a rock
What is a fossil?
100
How long ago the Earth formed
What is 4.5 billion years ago?
200
The color of a sedimentary depends on this ingredient.
What is the kind of particles it is made of?
200
Most rocks are made of this
What is minerals?
200
All limestone isn't white because of this
What is the particles it is made up of?
200
What types of rock do not contain fossils
What is Metamorphic and Igneous?
200
How long ago have humans been on Earth
What is 200-400 thousand years?
300
A drop of acid on a rock will fizz if the rock contains this particle.
What is calcium carbonate?
300
Another name for Shale
What is Mudstone?
300
This timescale that uses numbers to show the things that happened in earth's history
What is numeric time scales?
300
The oldest fossil found in the Grand Canyon
What is Strotamolites?
300
What was the period that lasted for the longest amount of time
What is Precambrian?
400
A trilobite that lived all over the world for a few million years
What is an example of an Index Fossil?
400
This type of rock only forms beneath Earth's surface
What is Metamorphic rocks?
400
Particles that settle when whatever is carrying them slows down
What is Sediments?
400
All fossils are Index Fossils.
What is false about Fossils?
400
Wiped out 90 percent of the life on Earth 270 million years ago
What is the Great Extinction?
500
Limestone can form when this gets compacted and cemented together
What is shells of marine organisms?
500
The method that all rocks can be changed to a different type. Ex: Sedimentary rocks can be turned to Metamorphic and Igneous.
What is the Rock Cycle?
500
These are Earth's destructive processes (list 5)
What is gravity wind water weathering erosion and tectonic activities?
500
Fossils of organisms that lived for a short period of time, but in many places around the world.
What is Index Fossil?
500
The amount of periods between the Paleozoic era and the Cenozoic era
What is 12 periods?
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