This is the person who digs up dinosaur bones/fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
These are the three factors that make rocks.
What are heat, pressure and time?
There are this many layers of the earth
What is four?
This is the liquid that is still inside the earth
What is magma?
These are natural substances found in the earth or the building blocks of rocks (think about the salt experiment and what salt is)
What are minerals?
Thisis the preserved imprint or body of a plant or animal that died many years ago .
What is a fossil?
This type of rock comes directly from a volcano
What is igneous rock?
This is the very first, or top, layer of the earth
What is the crust?
This is the liquid that comes out of a volcano
What is lava?
This mineral is _________.
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What is quartz?
This is the shape of something left on a surface due to pressure (think of the playdough example).
What is an impression?
This type of rock is made when igneous rocks are changed into another rock
What is metamorphic?
This is the second layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
This is a place where very hot water comes out of the earth
What is a geyser?
We use this word to describe things, or to help classify them in to catagories.
What are characteristics?
This term is used to describe something that is no longer alive or existing.
What is extinct?
This type of rock is a bunch of rocks cemented together
What is sedimentary?
This is the third layer of the earth
What is the outer core?
These places are formed by volcanos in the ocean
What are islands?
These are stones that are cut and polisehed to be used in jewelry
What are gemstones?
Fossils are formed over a short period of time or a long period of time.
What is a long period of time?
This person studies rocks.
What is a geologist?
The mantle is ________ (solid or liquid)
What is mostly solid?
Destructive means NOT causing damage
These things are important in creating minerals.
What is heat, time and pressure?