What are Sedimentary, Igneous, & Metamorphic rocks?
What can you learn from Fossils?
What are some other ways fossils form?
What happens once fossils are formed?
100
The study of the properties of rocks to tell how the rocks may have formed.
What is a Geologist?
100
from magma that has cooled and hardened above or below Earth's surface.
How do Igneous rocks form?
100
The soft parts quickly decay or are eaten.
What happens when a plant or animal dies?
100
sticky sap
What is amber?
100
metal rods and wire are used t hold up a skeleton.
How are fossils assembled for display?
200
Naturally occurring substances
What are minerals?
200
"fire-made"
How are Igneous rocks classified as?
200
animal tracks, body outlines, leaf prints, and grooves made by tiny fish bones.
What are imprints?
200
"turned to stone"
What does Petrified mean?
200
In the ground fossils are mixed with rocks. In museums the rocks are removed and the fossils may be coated with varnish or shellac. To protect them ,casts may be used instead of real fossils.
How do fossils displayed in museums compare with those in the ground?
300
luster, streak, hardness and sometimes color
What are 3 or 4 ways to tell minerals apart?
300
formed from smaller bits of rock that become pressed or cemented together.
How do sedimentary rocks form?
300
The hollow space showing the outside features of a shell.
What is a mold?
300
Bones have a hard, compact outer layer. Inside it is spongy with pores. Minerals deposit inside the pores.
How do bones become petrified?
300
meat eating animal
What is a carnivore?
400
this describes the way light bounces off a mineral sample.
What is luster?
400
"means changed into form"
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
Forms inside, takes on the shape, form a copy.
What is a cast?
400
What it ate, size and shape, its environment, body coverings
What could a scientist learn from a frozen animal?
400
plant eating animal?
What is a herbivore?
500
Quartz is colorless, white, pink and purple, while mica is colorless, silvery, and brown.
How can you tell mica from quartz?
500
never ending process by which rocks change from one type into another.
What is the rock cycle?
500
imprints, molds, casts
What are 3 kinds of fossils?
500
A whole animal could become a fossil by becoming trapped in a protective material such as tar or amber.
How could a whole animal become a fossil?
500
footprints tell the size of the animal and if it walked on two legs or four. Teeth tell whether the animal ate meat or plants. Fossils can also tell about the environment at the time the animal lived.