Minerals and Rocks
What is sediment?
What is small bits of weathered rock?
A person who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist
What is matter?
What is anything that has volume and mass?
What is energy?
What is the ability to do work?
What is the atmosphere?
What is a thin blanket of gases to surround the earth?
What is soil?
What is the loose material on the surface of the earth?
What is extinction?
When the last of a certain plant or animal dies
How is mass different than weight?
Weight measures the force of gravity on matter, and mass is the amount of material.
What is heat?
What is the transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another?
What is air pressure?
What is the weight of the air?
Name the three main layers of the earth.
What is the core, the mantle, and the crust.
How do evolutionists date fossils?
By looking at the rock layers.
What are the three states of matter. Define each one.
A liquid has definite volume but not shape.
A solid has both definite volume and shape.
A gas does not have a definite shape or volume.
How was fossils fuels formed?
What was the remains of plants and animals buried quickly during the Genesis flood?
Name the percentage (%) of the gases of the atmosphere.
Nitrogen -78%
Oxygen-21%
Other gases including carbon dioxide-1%
What is a rock?
What is a hard natural substance made of one or more mineral(s)?
Which animals were buried during the first flood?
The animals that were to slow.
What is freezing?
What is the process of changing a liquid to a solid?
(Fun fact: The freezing point of water is 32° F)
What are three uses of fuel?
What is teacher decides?
Name three different biomes.
What are the Tundra, Coniferous Forest, Deciduous Forest, Grasslands, Deserts, Tropical Rain Forests,
Mountains, Aquatic Biomes, Wetlands?
Name five characterists to identify minerals?
What is crystal structure, color, luster, hardness, and cleavage?
What are some reasons that dinosaurs became extinct?
1. Meteor
2.climate change
3.diseases
4.lack of food
(Fun fact: there is a 3% chance that a meteor could hit earth in the next seven years) ( this was written in 2025)
What are three ways that you might separate a mixture?
What is look, shaking it, and size?
What causes the heat that occurs when space vehicles take off or land?
The bigger the space craft, the more friction. The more friction the more heat.
What are the three main types of wetlands?
What are Marshes, Swamps, and Bogs?