Vocabulary
Rocks
True or False
Experiments We Did
100
Someone who studies earth and rocks is a _____
Geologist
100
Which rock is this: Reddish Scoria, Basalt, or Tuff?
Reddish Scoria
100
True or False: Rocks can only be big.
False. Rocks can be big or small.
100
What happened when rocks were rubbed together?
The rocks broke off smaller pieces of themselves or rock dust, also known as sand.
200
When rocks rub together and break into smaller pieces that is called weathering or washing?
Weathering
200
Which rock is this: Scoria, Basalt, or Tuff?
Basalt
200
True or False: Smooth is a property we can use to describe a rock.
True
200
What was the smallest form of rock we sorted?
Sand
300
Washing the dirt off rocks by putting it into water is called ______
Washing
300
Which rock is this: Scoria, Basalt, or Tuff?
Tuff
300
True or False: Texture is a property that describes a rock's color.
False. It describes if the rock is smooth, pointy, rough.
300
How did we sort rocks?
We grouped them by their properties.
400
Words to describe how something looks or feels are called ________
Properties
400
What is one property of basalt?
Answers may vary but grey, smooth, small
400
True or False: Pebbles and boulders are smaller than sand.
False. Sand is the smallest of those rocks.
400
Which rock made bubbles when we put it in water: Reddish Scoria, Tuff, or Basalt?
Reddish Scoria
500
What is an example of a property?
Answers may vary. Color/Size/ Shape/ Texture
500
What is one property of reddish scoria?
Answers may vary: holy, bumpy, reddish, light, small
500
True or False: Basalt, scoria and tuff rocks were all formed from volcanic eruptions.
True
500
What happened when we left the vials of sand in water overnight?
The vial formed 3 layers: silt was at the top, then sand and water.