Earth's Layers
Rocks
Minerals and Rocks
Scientists
Metals
100
core
What is the center of the earth?
100
soil
What is loose material on the surface of the earth?
100
mineral
What is an inorganic substance found naturally in the earth?
100
geologist
What is a scientist that studies the nonliving parts of the earth?
100
copper
What is a metal that conducts electricity?
200
mantle
What is the middle layer of the earth?
200
organic
What is particles that were once part of a living thing?
200
crystal structure
What is the orderly arrangement of the particles that make up a mineral?
200
mineralogist
What is a scientist that studies minerals?
200
smelting
What is the process of separating metal from other materials?
300
global Flood
What is it that caused the entire crust of the earth to change?
300
lava
What is the magma that flows from an opening onto the surface of the earth?
300
gemstone
What is a mineral that can be cut and polished.
300
Lapidary
What is a skilled craftsman who cuts gemstones?
300
gypsum
What is a metal used in dry wall?
400
sediment
What is small bits of weathered rock?
400
igneous rock
What is formed from cooled magma or volcanic lava
400
cleavage
What is the breaking of a mineral along smooth, straight lines or into flat sheets?
400
Seismologist
What is a scientist that studies earthquakes?
400
Flourite
What is a metal used in toothpaste?
500
erosion
What is the wearing away and breaking down of rock?
500
limestone, shale, and conglomerate
What is sedimentary rock?
500
Mohs Scale
What is the scale for determining the hardness of a mineral?
500
Beno Gutenberg
Who was a Jewish seismologist?
500
sulfur
What is a metal used in fertilizer?
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