Vocabulary
Types of Rock
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Soil
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100
What is the definition of a mineral?
What is a natural crystal structure appearing in nature that is NONliving.
100
What type of rock is obsidian?
What is igneous rock.
100
What is limestone made up of?
What is seashells.
100
What is the top layer of soil called?
What is topsoil.
100
What is the entire 3 layer of soil known as?
What is a soil profile.
200
What is weathering?
What is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces called sediments.
200
What type of rock is marble?
What is metamorphic.
200
For limestone to turn to marble, what step had to occur?
What is heat & pressure (metamorphic rock).
200
What is the middle layer of soil called?
What is subsoil.
200
Name 3 living things that reside in soil.
What is plant matter, insects, animals, etc.
300
What is erosion?
What is the movement of sediments from one place to another.
300
What type of rock is sandstone?
What is sedimentary
300
Name one way that weathering breaks apart rocks.
What is root pry, ice cracking, etc.
300
What is the bottom layer of soil called?
What is bedrock or substratum.
300
Name 3 nonliving items found in soil.
What is rocks, minerals, dead leaves, etc.
400
What is the definition of magma?
What is melted rock below the Earth's surface.
400
What type of rock is pumice?
What is igneous.
400
Give me an example of erosion.
What is mudslide, air, wind, water, etc.
400
why doesn't anything live in bedrock?
What is because it's mostly composed of large chunks of rock.
400
Why is topsoil usually darker in color?
What is because it contains many living and dead organism.
500
Name the 3 types of rocks and tell me about each type.
What is sedimentary (formed from sediments and compacted), igneous (hot rocks) and metamorphic (heat & pressure).
500
What type of rock is conglomerate?
What is sedimentary.
500
What makes up rocks?
What are minerals.
500
What percentage (%) of soil is made up of water and air? Give me both answers.
What is 25% AND 25%.
500
About how many years does it take to create an inch of topsoil? Also, what is our range of topsoil in Utah?
What is 1,000 years and 1 to 12 inches in depth.
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