This is a nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical makeup.
What is a mineral?
100
This part of soil is the decayed remains of plants and animals.
What is humus?
100
This is one of the two metals that magnets attract.
What is iron or nickel?
100
This tool is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This type of animal hunts for the (living) food it eats.
What is a predator?
200
This mineral has a hardness of 10 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is diamond?
200
These are the three layers of soil.
What are topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock?
200
This is an object that keeps its magnetism for a long time.
What is a permanent magnet?
200
This is the energy of moving particles in matter.
What is thermal energy?
200
This adaptation allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of living thing that is harmful.
What is mimicry?
300
These are the three types of rock.
What are sedimentary rock, igneous rock, and metamorphic rock.
300
This is the slow breaking apart or wearing away of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
300
This is what two like poles of a magnet will do.
What is repel?
300
This is any material that does not allow heat to pass through it easily. Examples include wood, paper, and rubber.
What is an insulator?
300
This is the name given to all plants that trap and digest insects.
What is a carnivorous plant?
400
This is the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo.
What is the rock cycle?
400
This is the dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is deposition?
400
This is the space around a magnet where the force of the magnet can act.
What is magnetic field?
400
These are three of the ways heat can be produced.
What are friction, electricity, mixing certain types of matter, and burning fuels?
400
This is decayed material from once-living things that is used to enrich soil. Examples include grass clippings, fruit and vegetable scraps, and egg shells.
What is compost?
500
This is Georgia's most important mineral product.
What is kaolin?
500
These are the three main types of soil.
What are sand, silt, and clay?
500
This rock is naturally magnetic.
What is lodestone?
500
This is the way in which heat moves through liquids and gases.