Geology
A scientist who studies the Earth and rocks.
What is a Geologist?
A part that lies over or under another part.
What is a layer?
A mountain that forms over a crack in the Earth's crust, where lava, ash, gas, and fire erupt.
What is a volcano?
How many types of rocks are there?
What is three?
What is the preserved imprint or body of a plant or animal that died many years ago?
What is a fossil?
The three most important things to remember about Geology when talking about how the Earth changes are:
What is "Heat! Pressure! Time!"?
Labeled number one on the picture.
What is the crust?
Lava before it comes up to the surface is called?
What is magma?
Gemstones are cut and polished stones normally used for what?
What is jewelry?
A scientist who studies fossils to find out more about the Earth's past.
What is a paleontologist?
The outermost layer or top of something.
What is surface?
Labeled number four on the picture.
What is the inner core?
Places on Earth where hot water and steam shoot up from inside the Earth to the surface.
What is a geyser?
The building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
Excavating is another word for what?
What is digging up?
The imaginary line that cuts the Earth into two halves.
What is the Equator?
Labelled number three on the picture.
What is the outer core?
What does destructive mean?
What is causing damage?
Little tiny pieces of dirt and rock that are moved by wind, ice, water, or landslides. Hint: This forms sedimentary rocks.
What are sediments?
When an animal or plant is extinct it means what?
What is no longer living or existing?
A continuous weight pressing down on the Earth's crust. Hint: It is one of the most important things to remember with Geology.
What is pressure?
Labeled number two on the picture.
What is the mantle?
Molten metal is another way of saying metal that is what?
What is melted?
A rock that contains valuable minerals or metals. Hint: Remember what we were talking about this being in Minecraft!
What is ore?
Dinosaurs: Scientists say that dinosaurs became extinct because a large what fell from the sky?
What is a meteorite?