Rocks
Fossils
Layers
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100
How is igneous rock formed.
What is Magma/lava cools/solidifies?
100
Who is a paleontologist.
What is a scientist who studies fossils?
100
How can you tell which rock layers are older.
What is depth of layer? (Or deeper layers are older)
100
What is weathering.
What is breaking down of rocks and minerals?
100
What is a fossil.
What is remains of once living things that have been preserved?
200
How is sedimentary rock formed.
What is Compaction and Cementation
200
What is a fossil fuel.
What is any fuel formed from the remains on once-living organisms?
200
What is relative dating
What is determining whether an object or event is older or younger than other objects or events.
200
Three main rock types.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
200
What is a mold fossil.
What is a hollowed out space in the shape of a once living organism?
300
Difference between a mineral and a rock.
What is minerals are just one mineral, while rock can be many different types?
300
How are fish fossils found in the desert.
What is once there was a body of water there?
300
what is absolute dating.
What is determining the exact age of a rock/fossil?
300
Give an example of an intrusive igneous rock.
What is obsidian, granite, gabbro (answer may vary)?
300
What is an intact fossil.
What is an entire animal that was preserved?
400
What are all rocks classified by.
What is how they are formed?
400
What is carbon film.
What is a thin covering left when heat and pressure destroy most of the buried remains on a plant or animal?
400
What do water, wind, ice, heat, plants, and gravity do.
What is weather/erode?
400
How is metamorphic rock formed.
What is plates collide and heat and pressure change it to Metamorphic rock
400
What is a trace fossil.
What is a fossil that shows how a dead animal changed or lived in their environment?
500
Difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, and which one has large crystals.
What is where they cooled (inside the Earth or outside) and Intrusive
500
How are petrified fossils made.
What is minerals take the place of cells in a dead organisms remains?
500
What are index fossils.
What are fossils that are only found in one layer of rock and used to determine the age of rock layers?
500
steps of rock cycle, beginning with Weathering.
What is weathering/erosion, deposition, compaction/cementation, melting, solidification
500
Why do we study fossils.
What is to learn about the earth, as well as the plants and animals that lived long ago?
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