Mutiple Choice
What is the molten rock in the earth's mantle called?
Magma
A person who studies minerals is a geologist.
False, mineralogist
A scientist who studies the structure of the Earth is a ______.
Geologist
Plant and animale remains that have turned to stone are called?
Petrified fossils
Granite
Igneous
What do we call the decaying plant and animal material in the soil?
Humus
The hardest substance of all is quartz.
Oil in its natural state is called _______.
Crude oil or petroleum
Fossils that form when mud buries a plant or animal and then quickly hardens around it are called?
Mold fossils
Limestone
Sedimentary
Which rock smells like mud when it is wet?
Shale
Our most useful metal is iron
True
The two types of weathering are _______ and _______.
Chemical
Physical
Scientists who study fossils are called?
Paleontologists
Slate and marble
Metamorphic
Which rock has often been used to make chalkboards?
Slate
The rarest gemstone is the diamond
False, Ruby
A person who explores caves is a _________.
Most fossils were probably formed when?
during the Flood of Noah's time
Igneous
What material is used in pencils instead of lead?
Graphite
False, silver
An underground spring that shoots streams of boiling water and steam up into the air from time to time is a __________.
Geyser
SURPRISE! Not about Fossils!
Rare, beautiful minerals that are very hard but have not yet been polished are __________.
Sandstone and shale
Sedimentary