Fuels
Building Materials
Growing Plants
Which One?
100
We pump it out of the ground and turn it into gasoline to power our cars.
What is oil? Oil is a fossil fuel!
100
Calcite is used in this building material that is mixed wet and poured to make sidewalks.
What is cement?
100
Growing plants need lots of dead plants and animals in soil to grow. This is the name for small bits of dead plants and animals in soil.
What is humus?
100
Oil
What is fuel?
200
Coal is a fossil fuel and can be burned to warm up buildings where people live. What do you call a building where people live?
What is a home or house?
200
This monument to our first president is made of marble and granite.
What is the Washington Monument?
200
Plants need good drainage to grow, so you might want to go to the beach and find this kind of soil to add.
What is sand?
200
Marble
What is building material?
300
Since oil and coal are fossil fuels, do they come from the surface of the earth or deep inside the earth?
What is "deep inside the earth"?
300
The Empire State Building in New York is made out of this kind of rock (Hint: a compound word that includes sand and stone).
What is sandstone?
300
A carrot would have a tough time growing it's delicious orange root in this kind of soil. This soil is much better for making pottery.
What is clay?
300
Humus
What is soil?
400
Fossils are the remains of once ______ _________
What are "living things"?
400
Gypsum is a mineral that is used to make drywall. Drywall is in everybody's house and is found in these parts of the house.
What are the walls?
400
Clay, sand, and humus mixed together make a soil that is great for these places where people grow vegetables in their yard.
What are gardens?
400
Granite
What is building material?
500
They are two kinds of fossil fuels.
What are coal and oil?
500
Silica is used to make this transparent building material that is made into windows.
What is glass?
500
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary are all kinds of this part of soil.
What are rocks?
500
Coal
What is fuel?
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