Rocks
Fossils
Layers of the Earth
Vocabulary
Random Facts
100
The name of the process in which sediments wear away.
what is weathering ?
100
Give an example of something fossils have shown to scientists today.
It reveals what happened before humans were on Earth.
100
Name the 4 layers of the earth.
What are the Core, crust, mantle, and inner core? 
100
The scientific study of fossils and ancient life forms.
What is Paleontology?
100
By studying fossils, scientist have learned a great deal.
What is Ancient life?
200
This is the process of continuous change.
What is the Rock Cycle?
200
What are those who study dinosaurs called?
What is Palentologist?
200
Where can the inner core be found inside?
What is the very center of Earth?
200
A solid with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure.
What is a Mineral?
200
List three ways that a fossil can form.
What are Carbonization, Freezing, and Mummification?
300
What is the name of the type of rock that can become another rock?
what is metamorphic Rock?
300
Name some areas in which fossils can be found.
What is all over the world?
300
How hot does it have to be for the nickel to become a liquid?
What is 2,650 degrees Farenheit?
300
A key factor in fossil formation is quick burial.
What is a Sediment?
300

Fossils are commonly formed in molten rock.

(true or false)

What is false?
400

When the crust cracks open the magma explodes or oozes out of the lava of the volcano and then cools quickly, this forms a type of rock.


What is Igneous Rock?
400
Organisms body parts stay put together when they become a fossil. (True Or False)
What is False?
400
The 2 materials that the inner and outer core are made of.
What is iron and nickle?
400
The study of earth is material in its history.
What is geology?
400

The most common rock for fossils to be found in is sedimentary rock.

(True or False)

What is True?
500
A layer of mud in sand that layers over top of each other.
What are sediments ?
500
Give an example of organisms becoming a fossil.
What is walking into tar then sinking or suffocate and then become a fossil?
500

The mantle is made of incredibly hot semisolid rock.

(True or False)

What is true?
500
Rocks that have changed form as a result of heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
500
Give proof of how we know dinosaurs existed.
What is Paleontologists have shown proof?
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