Dino of the Day!
This dinosaur's name means "death dragon".
What is the Thanatosdrakon?
Molten (melted) rock under Earth's crust.
What is magma?
This is hard, ancient tree sap.
What is amber?
What is sediment?
A rock with crystals inside.
What is a geode?
This dinosaur looks like T-Rex!
What is a meraxes dinosaur?
The Earth's outer layer
What is the crust?
Describe the making of fossils.
1. Living thing dies.
2. Living thing is buried and compressed.
3. Body is replaced by minerals and leaves behind an imprint.
This rock is made by lava and magma after it cools.
What is igneous rock?
A small, soft feather used to keep birds warm.
Downy feather.
This dinosaur looked like a sea bird!
The names of two volcanoes in Washington State
What is...
1. Mount Rainier
2. Mout Saint Helens
3. Glacier Peak
4. Mount Baker
Name two tools used in excavation.
1. Brush
2. Hammer
3. Pick
4. Shovel
This type of rock is crumbly and made of layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
Scientists use these to see layers of dirt in the Earth.
What are core samples?
This armored dinosaur's name means "shield-bearer".
What is a jakapil?
Tectonic plates shift over each other, moving the Earth's crust.
This is a solid with a repeating structure.
What is a crystal?
The movement of the continents over time.
The difference between magma and lava.
Magma is melted rock inside the volcano, and lava is melted rock outside the volcano.
This is a type of trace fossil.
Igneous -weathering-> sedimentary --> metamorphic -heating and cooling -> igneous
Semi-plume feathers are a combination of these two feather types.
What are contour and downy feathers?