Soil
Rock Groups
Properties of Minerals
Challenge
Rockin' out
100
Soil is made from.......
What is "the breakdown of rocks by natural forces"?
100
These rocks are formed from little pieces of rocks, sand, shells, and plant and animal remains.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
How shiny or dull a rock or mineral is.
What is luster?
100
A group of rocks that make an interesting shape.
What is a rock formation?
100
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
200
Name the three types of soil.
What are "sand, silt, and clay"?
200
These rocks are formed from molten rock pushes through the Earth's crust, then cooling and hardening.
What are igneous rock?
200
A mineral is made up of how many substances.
What is one?
200
A fossil is ___________.
What is the imprint of an organism on a rock?
200
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
300
An earthworm or mole is an example of a ___________.
What is a "decomposer"?
300
These rocks were once igneous or sedimentary.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Scientists classify rocks and minerals based on what 5 categories.
What are colour, shape, size, texture, and lustre?
300
A scientist who studies rocks and minerals.
What is a geologist?
300
A long and slow process that breaks rocks and minerals into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
400
Soil is made up of ____% rock.
What is 45?
400
These 2 things can cause a rock to change?
What are intense heat or pressure.
400
A mineral looks the same on the inside as it does on the outside. True or false?
What is true?
400
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
400
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
500
Organic material (dead, rotting plants and animals) is called ______.
What is "loam"?
500
Give an example of what sedimentary rocks are used for.
What is concrete, buildings, sidewalks, roads, bricks?
500
There are 3 different types of rocks. How many different types of minerals are there?
What is more than 3000?
500
Describe what will happen after thousands of years to sand and other sediment that has blown or washed to the ocean floor.
What is sediment will build up, compress together in layers and form larger rocks?
500
A scientist that study fossils is called a ___________.
What is a paleontologist?
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