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Fossils
Rocks
Earth's Formation History
Destructive Processes
Constructive Processes
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Fossils that were around for a short amount of time all around the Earth.
What is an Index Fossil?
100
Rock type that forms from volcano activity.
What is an igneous rock?
100
4.5 billion years ago.
When did Earth form?
100
When wind or water breaks away parts of the Earth.
What is erosion?
100
When water deposits particles from one place to another.
What is deposition?
200
Type of rock that is most likely to contain a fossil.
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
The type of rock that only forms below earths surface.
What are metamorphic rock?
200
A time when Earth is frozen by ice.
What is an ice age?
200
The cause when lava erupts from the Earth.
What is a volcano?
200
When tectonic plates fold against each other.
What is mountain building?
300
The remains or traces of organisms that have been preserved in Earth's crust.
What is a fossil?
300
Rocks that contains dead marine organisms and sea shells.
What is limestone?
300
The Quaternary and Tertiary periods are in this Era.
What is the Cenozoic Era?
300
The things in the earth that cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
300
A mountain or hill that is being or has been erupted from the earth's crust shooting out lava.
What is a volcano?
400
An extinct marine arthropod that occurred abundantly during the Paleozoic era.
What is a trilobite?
400
A rock that can only be scratched by itself.
What are diamonds?
400
The object that killed the dinosaurs.
What is a meteor?
400
a slowly moving mass of ice formed by the compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
What is a Glacier?
400
When the planet is constantly being shaped by forces.
What are constructive processes?
500
The fossils in these two rock types usually get destroyed while formation is occurring.
What are metamorphic and igneous rocks?
500
Material in rocks that make them fizz when met with acid.
What is calcite or calcium carbonate?
500
A time when all the continents were pushed together creating the super continent.
What is Rhodinia?
500
When water goes into a crack of a rock and freezes causing the rock to break.
What is ice wedging?
500
Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
What is a sediment?