Rocks
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter.
What is a rock?
A remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in the earth's crust.
What is a fossil?
The four major components of the structure of the Earth are divided into.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
A tool that allows us to view small organisms that are invisible to the naked eye.
What is a microscope?
A mountain or hill, typically conical, has a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
A naturally formed solid matter that has crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
When living things die and are buried by sediments that slowly harden and preserve its shape.
What is fossil formation?
The hottest layer of the earth.
What is the inner core?
An electrical appliance used for heating substances.
What is a hot plate?
A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
What is an earthquake?
Rocks that form when hot, liquid rock (magma) cools.
What is a igneous rock?
Someone who studies fossils as a way of getting information about the history of life on Earth
What is a paleontologist?
The layer made out of dense and solid rock.
What is the mantle?
A round, long-neck bottle or vial used for holding liquids.
What is a flask?
The liquid rock inside of a volcano.
What is magma?
Rocks whose structure, composition, and texture have changed from those of the original rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This is measured by how far the fossil is from the top of the ground.
What is the age of fossils?
This layer is about 1,400 miles (2,250 kilometers) thick.
What is the outer core?
Used to grow and study bacteria and other microorganisms.
What is a petri dish?
Where 80% of the earth's earthquakes occur.
What is the Pacific Rim?
Rocks formed when grains of rock or minerals (sediments)are buried, squeezed together, and cemented by minerals.
What is a sedimentary rock?
River valleys, cliffs and hillsides, and human-made exposures such as quarries and road cuttings.
What is where fossils can be found?
This is how hot the inner core of the Earth is.
What are 6,700 degrees Celcius or 12,092 degrees Fahrenheit?
This moves up or down in the thermometer depending on the temperature.
What is mercury?
The largest active volcano on Earth.
What is Mauna Loa?