The Earth is a sphere, which is just like the shape of a ball
What is the shape of the Earth?
100
A scientist who studies rocks.
What is a geologist?
100
A scientist who studies the history of life on Earth
What is a paleontologist?
100
Dinosaurs lived many, many years ago and only their bones have been found.
Why do we not know what dinosaurs really looked like?
100
It is called lava.
Once magma erupts to the surface of the crust, what is it called?
200
Continents and oceans.
What do we call the land and water that cover the surface of the Earth?
200
Rocks are used in jewelry making, in buildings and in art.
How are rocks used by people?
200
A preserved body or imprint of a plant or animal that lived long, long ago.
What is a fossil?
200
It means that there are no living dinosaurs left?
What does it mean when someone says that dinosaurs are extinct?
200
Magma forms in this layer.
What is the mantle?
300
There are layers and a lot of rock inside the Earth.
What is inside the Earth?
300
Heat, pressure and time
What are three important words to remember when thinking about geology?
300
Most are buried under layer after layer of sedimentary rock over many years with more sediment pressing down on it as a result of geologic pressure.
How are fossils formed?
300
Tyrannosaurus Rex
What is the name of a carnivorous dinosaur?
300
A place where steam and water erupt from the earth
What is a geyser?
400
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth that divides the Earth into two equal halves.
What is the equator?
400
Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
What are the three types of rocks?
400
You only see an impression, or shape, not the actual shell or plant. The creature itself decayed and rotted away.
What do you see when you look at a fossil?
400
Triceratops
What is the name of a plant eating dinosaur with three horns?
400
These islands were formed because lava from volcanoes piled up over time from the ocean floor to the ocean surface where it became dry land.
How was Hawaii formed?
500
To learn about different time periods in the history of the Earth.
Why do geologists study the layers of rock in the Earth's crust?
500
What rocks are made of
What are minerals?
500
In layers of sedimentary rock close to a water source.
Where are fossil usually found?
500
A meteorite crashed to Earth and sent debris up into the atmosphere blocking out light and energy from the sun causing much of earth's plant life to die and severely lowering the temperature.
What do some scientists think caused the dinosaurs to become extinct?
500
They are both eruptions caused by heat and pressure inside the earth