Rocks and Minerals
Soil
Fossil Fuels
Air and Water
Bonus Round
100
Solid, nonliving substance found in nature
What is a Mineral?
100
Mixture of weathered rocks, minerals, and other things.
What is soil?
100
Imprints, stony models, molds, and casts are examples of this
What is a fossil?
100
This is what happens when harmful things get into the water, air, and land.
What is pollution?
100
Which are more important to conserve—renewable or nonrenewable resources? Why?
Nonrenewable because they can be used up
200
Nonliving material made of one or more minerals
What is a rock?
200
A material on Earth that is necessary or useful to people
What is a natural resource?
200
A material that is burned for its energy
What is a fuel?
200
Using resources wisely
What is conservation?
200
Name three of the four mineral properties that can be used to tell rocks apart.
Color, streak, luster, hardness
300
A rock that has been changed by heat or pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
This type of soil is the middle layer of soil
What is subsoil?
300
A fuel formed from the remains of ancient plants or animals
What is a fossil fuel?
300
Freshwater that is held in rocks and soil below the ground
What is ground water?
300
How would your life be different if there was no soil on Earth?
Plants would not be able to grow; there would be no food
400
This forms when melted rock cools and hardens, either inside Earth or on the Earth's surface
What is an igneous rock?
400
This soil is on the bottom and made up of rocks
What is bedrock?
400
A resource that can be replaced again and again
What is a renewable resource?
400
Cooking, farming, drinking, bathing, swimming
What are uses for water?
400
Give one example of each of the three kinds of rock.
Sedimentary: sandstone, shale, limestone Metamorphic: slate, phyllite, gneiss Igneous: Basalt, granite
500
Source of minerals in vitamins, source of metals, building materials for houses, driveways, and roads
What are the uses of a rock?
500
This soil would have the most amount of humus in it
What is topsoil?
500
Fossil fuels, wood, wind, running water, and solar energy
What are sources of energy?
500
This acts as a filter for water
What is the ground/soil?
500
Name 5 things that are used by people that come from the earth.
Answers will vary.
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