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Hard pieces of the earth's surface are called _______.
What are rocks?
Any remaining part of a living thing that died long ago is called a ______.
What is a fossil?
A solid material in nature that was never alive is called a _____.
What is a mineral?
Plants grow in the ______.
What is topsoil?
The soil layer that has large pieces of rock and contains no humus is called _____.
What is bedrock?
The remains of living things that have died and decayed become _______.
What is humus?
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces is called _____.
What is weathering?
An opening in the earth that allows melted rock to come to the surface is called a ____.
What is a volcano?
Rocks are classified by how they are ____.
How are rocks formed?
When melted rock cools, _____ forms.
How is igneous rock formed?
When layers of sediment are pressed together and hardened, ______ is formed.
How is sedimentary rock formed?
When other rocks are changed by great heat and pressure, _______ is formed.
How's metamorphic rock formed?
One result of the Flood that we can see is _____ soil and rocks.
What is worn away soil and rocks evidence of?
Knowing the ______ of minerals is helpful using them in tools and other things.
What are characteristics?
God designed the surface of the earth so that it ____ change.
What is change?
____ support the worldwide Flood.
What are fossils?
Soil is made of small bits of _________ _____________________.
What do broken rock, humus, air, and water make?
The soil layer that contains humus is the ______.
What is the topsoil?
Rocks can have more than one ______ in them.
What is mineral?
hardness and crystal shape
What are two characteristics of minerals?
water and plants
What are two things that can weather rock?
Rocks are classified by how they are _____.
What is formed?
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
What are the three groups of rocks?
plants, ice, water, and wind
What are the four causes of weathering?
The layer of soil that is solid rock.
What is bedrock?