Vocabulary 1
What is a process of changing rock types?
Rock Cycle
Crust
Name 3 properties of minerals.
Color, shape, and hardness
What 2 things are needed for sedimentary rock to become metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
What is the center of the Earth?
Core
What type of rock have materials that settle into layers and harden?
Sedimentary rock
Name 3 types of rocks
Metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous
A rock is made of....
One or more minerals
What are marks or remains of a once-living thing?
Fossils
What is a solid material made of one or more minerals?
Rock
Name 3 things the mineral "iron" is used in.
Buildings, cars, and ships
What type of rock does heat help form?
Metamorphic rock
What is the name of the rock that has been changed by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic Rock
What is the Earth's middle layer?
Mantle
Which type of rock is likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary rock
A diamond because it is hard and chalk is soft.
What are solid natural objects that have never been alive?
What type of rocks were once melted but then cooled and hardened?
Igneous Rocks
Why are fossils usually found in sedimentary rock?
The fossils are trapped in the sediments that form the layers of rock, and the layers save animal and plant shapes.
What can we learn from a dinosaur's teeth?
The shape of their teeth can tell us what they ate.