Soil
Igneous
Sedimentary and Metamorphic
Fossils
Minerals
100
The process of breaking rocks into tiny pieces
what is weathering?
100
Where slow-cooling igneous rocks are formed.
what is below ground?
100
These two things turn other rocks into metamorphic rocks.
what are heat and pressure?
100
Fossils help us determine the age of this.
What are the rocks the fossils are found in?
100
This property shows the true color of a mineral.
What is streak?
200
The three ingredients of soil
what are weathered rock particles, decayed plants and animals, and microorganisms?
200
Where fast-cooling igneous rocks are formed.
what is above ground?
200
Metamorphic rocks are formed here because it's where heat and pressure are the greatest.
Where is below the Earth's surface?
200
This type of fossil would tell you that Bowling Green used to be underwater.
What is a marine fossil?
200
This property is how a mineral reflects light
What is luster?
300
This expands in the cracks of rocks to break them into smaller pieces.
what is water?
300
This igneous rock floats in water.
What is pumice?
300
This sedimentary rock is made of fish skeletons and sea shells
what is limestone?
300
These fossils are found in the oldest layer of the geologic time scale.
What are jellyfish fossils?
300
This scale is used to measure hardness.
What is the Moh's scale?
400
This type of soil holds the most water
What is clay?
400
This is magma after it has erupted from a volcano
what is lava?
400
Where most sedimentary rocks are formed.
What is the bottom of lakes and oceans?
400
Fossils are usually only found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
This is a mineral that often looks gold, but leaves a black streak
What is pyrite?
500
This type of soil holds very little water because it has the largest rock particles
What is sand?
500
This type of igneous rock can become marble through the rock cycle.
What is granite?
500
The only type of rock that is formed without the use of heat.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
This type of fossil tells us about how an animal moves
what are footprint fossils?
500
This mineral is white with a glassy luster. It leaves a white streak and has a hardness of 3 on the Moh's scale.
What is calcite?
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