Holiday Trivia
ROCKY ROCKS
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Vocabulary
100
What holiday is celebrated on the 25th of December?

Christmas 

100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
The are the remains of dead plants and animals

Fossils

100

What is the hottest layer of the earth?

Inner core
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200

What holiday is celebrated on the 31st of December 

New years 

200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200

The main who coined the term continental drift

Alfred Wegner 

200

Name the 3 fossil fuels 

coal, oil and natural gas

200

What does compaction mean?

squished

300

Who or what pulls Santas sleigh?

reindeer

300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
Some evidence that supported the idea that the continents used to be stuck together are?

Fossils of plants and animals , mountain formations, glacial grooves, continents are like a puzzle piece 

300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300

The third layer of soil?

parent material

400

What holiday falls in Feburary?

Valentines 

400

Metamorphic rocks can be found where?

subduction or mountains

400

What rock has large crystals 

intrusive igneous 

400

What sphere of earth holds all the air?

Atmosphere 

400

Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500

Who stole christmas?

The grinch

500

This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?

What is coal?

500

Name the 4 spheres and explain them

biosphere-life

atmosphere-aire

geosphere-rocks and minerals

hydropshere-water

500

What is density?

How solid something is. 

500

This type of volcano breaks out in the middle of a plate when there is a weakness in the crust. 

Hotspot.

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