Fossils
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Process
Misc
100
A fossil is the remains of these two things.
What is a plant or animal?
100
This is a solid piece of the Earth.
What is a rock?
100

These are large, moving pieces of rock that make up Earth's outer layer.

What are plates?
100
This process is when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or into sediment.
What is weathering?
100
This person studies Earth's rocks.
What is a geologist?
200
This can be the actual bones/parts or an imprint of a plant or animal.
What is a fossil?
200
This rock is formed from pieces of sediment.
What is sedimentary?
200
These seven large masses of land that are part of Earth's surface are continuously being shaped by Earth's natural processes.
What is a continent?
200
This is the process of moving rocks or sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
This scientist studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
300

Fossils have to be this old to be considered a fossil.

What is 10,000 years old?
300
This rock is formed from heated and cooled rock.
What is igneous?
300
This happens when plates move past each other and a large amount of energy is released.
What is an earthquake?
300
These three things can cause weathering and erosion.
What is water, wind, and ice?
300
Melted rock under the ground is called this.
What is magma?
400
Fossils are found in what type of rock?
What is sedimentary?
400
This rock is formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
400
An area that has many volcanoes and earthquakes means that there is most likely this in that area.
What is a tectonic plate boundary?
400

Water freezes and expands inside a rock, splitting the rock into pieces is an example of this.

What is weathering?
400
Lava from the volcanoes in the Galapogos islands are this hot.
What is 10,000 degrees celsius?
500
This fossil is the left over parts of an ancient plant stem that is often called Indian money?
What is a crinoid?
500
This is the layer of rock that is found at the bottom of the other layers of rock?
What is the oldest layer of rock?
500

This describes the slow movement of Earth’s continents.

What is the plate tectonic theory?
500
Heavy rains cause a field to have deep ruts in the dirt is an example of this.
What is erosion?
500
This is a way to measure earthquakes.
What is the richter scale?
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