Rocks
Minerals
Rock N Roll
The Flinstones Town
Soil of Ole
100
Basalt is what kind of rock?
Igneous Rock
100
What is the shiny solid material found in rocks?
Minerals
100
What is the movement of weathered materials called?
Erosion
100
What layer would you expect to find the largest rocks?
Bedrock
100
what percent of soil is organic material?
5%
200
What type of rock means "Change"?
Metamorphic Rock
200
What kind of mineral is a girls best friend?
Diamond
200
What direction does erosion move Earth materials?
Downward
200
What layer of soil would you find humus?
Topsoil
200
What Percent of soil is air?
25%
300
A rock sample is found with layers and looks cemented together. What type of rock is it?
Sedimentary Rock
300
Minerals are found in What?
Rocks
300
A wrecking ball breaking down a building best describes what?
Weathering
300
Name the 3 layers of soil?
Topsoil, Subsoil, and Bedrock
300
Name 4 components that are found in soil?
Living, once living, and non-living organisms, water, air, rocks, minerals
400
What rocks are formed from colled molten rock?
Igneous
400
What is the proper name for rock salt?
Halite
400
Steve the dump truck moves debre away which best describes what natural event?
Erosion
400
What gives the topsoil its dark color?
Decaying Living Things
400
Name the 4 processes or erosion that cause rocks to move?
Wind, Water, Glaciers, and Gravity
500
Sometimes the remains of animals and plants can be found inside rocks called?
Fossils
500
What do we call the scale to determine a rock's hardness?
Moh's Hardness Scale
500
Name two things you can do to prevent weathering and erosion?
Planting rows of trees and grass or putting up retaining walls made of larger bolders
500
What forms after a rock has been weathered over many, many years?
Soil
500
Name the 4 processes of physical weathering that cause rocks to break down?
Wind, Water, Plant Roots, and Temperature
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