Rocks
Fossils
Vocabulary
Weathering & Erosion
Wild Card
100
Rocks are made of these.
What are minerals?
100
The most common rock type for fossil formation.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
The dissolved or suspended materials in water.
What is load?
100
This process breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The process that transforms rock from one form to another.
What is rock cycle?
200
The particles that give rock its texture.
What is grain?
200
The most common type of fossil.
What are marine invertebrates?
200
Rock formed by magma that cools and hardens.
What is igneous?
200
This process carries broken rock pieces from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
The two major events that are important to catastrophists who believe in the biblical account of Earth's history.
What is Creation and the Flood?
300
Variations in metamorphic rock are caused by this.
What is changes in heat or pressure?
300
This type of fossil would represent animal behaviors.
What is trace fossil?
300
Rock formed by weathered and eroded rock fragments that combine and harden.
What is sedimentary?
300
The type of rock that can form as a result of weathering and erosion.
What is sedimentary?
300
This viewpoint is based on a historical perspective that earth has been shaped by large scale events that happened in a short amount of time.
What is catastrophism?
400
Variations in sedimentary rock are caused by this.
What is differences in rock particle size?
400
This type of fossil provides the most complete type of evidence for the original organism.
What is resin fossil?
400
The rock layers formed by deposited rock pieces and materials.
What is strata?
400
The two most common natural agents that cause weathering and erosion.
What are water and wind?
400
This viewpoint is based on a historical perspective that earth has been shaped by gradual processes that happened over a long amount of time.
What is uniformitarianism?
500
Variations in igneous rock are caused by this.
What is the time it takes for magma or lava to cool?
500
These fossils are formed by a chemical process of minerals replacing organic matter over time.
What is petrification?
500
The layered appearance of a rock due to its grain arrangement.
What is foliated?
500
Weathering creates a _________ that may be eroded and then settles during ___________.
What is load / deposition?
500
The two types of Earth's crust.
What are oceanic and continental?
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