This solid object is made up of minerals and comes in different forms.
What is: rock
100
Something that has lasted from a living thing that died long ago.
What is: a fossil
100
The solid outer layer of the Earth is called this ______.
What is: the crust
200
Minerals are identified and classified by their ______.
What are: properties
200
This type of rock was once melted but has cooled and hardened.
What is: igneous rock
200
The shape of a plant or animal left in sediments when the rock formed. Example: the ammonite shell in our text book.
What is: a mold
200
The hot middle layer that the crust sits on is called this ________.
What is: the mantle
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Give an example of how the mineral, iron, may be used in our daily life.
Iron is used to make steel for airplanes, buildings, and washing machines.
300
This type of rock forms from material that has settled into layers.
What is: sedimentary rock
300
What is formed when mud or minerals fill a mold.
What is: a cast
300
The very center of the Earth. It is the hottest part of the Earth.
What is: the core
400
True or false: a diamond is NOT a mineral.
False: Diamond is the hardest mineral on the planet.
400
This type of rock has been changed by heat and pressure.
What is: metamorphic rock
400
DAILY DOUBLE: molds of leaves or other thin objects are called __________.
What is: an imprint
400
DAILY DOUBLE: True or False: the core is so hot that the outer part is liquid and the inner part is solid because the weight of the planet presses in on it.
What is: True
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Name the 3 properties of minerals.
What are: hardness, color, and shape.
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Sedimentary rock melts to form igneous rock. Then heat and pressure changes the igneous rock into metamorphic rock. Later wind and water breaks up the metamorphic rock to form sedimentary rock again. What is this process called?
Rock Cycle
500
DAILY DOUBLE: Fossils often form in this type of rock. The soft parts of the animal decompose and the hard parts such as shell and bones are slowly buried under layers of rock.
What is: sedimentary rock
500
DAILY DOUBLE: The core of the Earth is made up of this mineral.