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Vocab
Earth History
Rock Cycle
Quiz
100
These are the three major types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
100
A trace or remain of a plant or animal.
What is a fossil?
100
The world was created this long ago.
What is 4.5 billions years?
100
This rock gets compacted and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
This type of rock is most likely to contain fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This is the main ingredient of limestone.
What is calcite/calcium carbonate?
200
The amount of mass of its given volume of the substance.
What is density?
200
This is the longest era in Earth's history.
What is the Precambrian Era?
200
These two rocks change due to heat and/or pressure.
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
200
This process breaks small rocks apart to form small pieces or bits.
What is weathering?
300
These break down old landforms. Examples are erosion, gravity, water pulling, earthquakes, and the Grand Canyon.
What is destructive earth processes?
300
This is the color of the powder left behind when the mineral is scraped across a surface.
What is a streak?
300
Modern humans appeared this long ago.
What is 200,000 years?
300
If a metamorphic rock erodes, weathers, moves, and settles it would be this rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
This is the huge layer that lies between Earth's crust and core.
What is the mantle?
400
The way sedimentary rocks form.
What is when particles get compacted and cemented together?
400
These are fossils of organisms that lived for only a short time in many places around the world.
What are index fossils?
400
This is the era we are in.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
400
When a sedimentary rock melts due to extreme heat, you would get this.
What is a molten rock?
400
These are the types of rocks that can form at or near earth's surface.
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
500
These are new landforms that were built. Examples are mountain building, new crust formation, and sedimentation.
What are constructive earth processes?
500
These are dinosaurs that were wiped out.
What are iridium?
500
Modern humans appeared in this period.
What is the Quaternary period?
500
If a sedimentary rock melts due to extreme heat and then cools and hardens, you would have this type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
500
Physical and chemical processes can cause this.
What is weathering?
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