A rock can best be described as a substance made up of 2 or more types of ____________.
What is minerals?
100
Fossils tell us about environments in the ______.
What is past?
100
A large body of salt water that is surrounded or almost surrounded by land is a ________.
What is sea?
100
When rock, sand, or soil is moved from one location to another, this change occurs to the Earth’s surface. What change is happening?
What is erosion?
100
This type of soil is made up of decayed parts of once-living plants and animals.
What is humus?
200
The observation, "A paper clip scratches the rock" tells us about the rock's ___________.
What is hardness?
200
I found a piece of rock with the imprint of a leaf on it. What type of fossil did I find?
What is mold fossil?
200
What is the main difference between a lake and a pond?
A lake is larger than a pond.
200
When rock, sand, or soil are dropped in a new location, this changes occurs to the Earth’s surface. What change is happening?
What is deposition?
200
Mason has been outside playing with his friends. When he came in, his mother asked him to take off his shoes because he was tracking dirt across the room. Mason noticed that the dirt was sticky and clumpy. What kind of soil did he most likely have on his shoes?
What is clay?
300
This type of rock is made from cooled lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
300
A 3rd grade class made models of fossils. First, they made an imprint of a shell in a box of sand. Then they poured plaster in the imprint and let it harden. When they took it out, they had a model of a fossil. What type of fossil did they make?
What is cast fossil?
300
This forms underground when water wears away rock. What landform is it?
What is cave or cavern?
300
Name 3 rapid processes.
What is earthquake, flood, volcano, landslide?
300
This type of soil has very small, fine pieces and feels like powder. When you step in it and pull your foot out, your foot is clean. What type of soil is it?
What is silt?
400
A type of rock made up of pieces of other rocks that have been pressed together.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
What type of fossils are fossil dinosaur teeth and bones?
What is preserved parts?
400
What is the difference between a canyon and a valley?
A canyon has steep sides and a valley has sloping sides.
400
Name a landform that was not formed by weathering.
What is volcano, island, mountain?
400
Which of the following would be a resource to provide fuel?
a. granite
b. humus
c. marble
d. oil
What is oil?
500
Color, luster, and hardness are examples of the _____________ of minerals.
What is properties?
500
Fossils of plants have been found in very cold and snow-covered areas of the Earth where no plants grow today. What do these fossils tell us about that environment?
The climate was probably warmer at one time.
500
What change would most likely occur from a volcanic eruption?
The volcano is built up.
500
Name 3 landforms that were formed by weathering.
What is canyon, valley, and cavern?
500
Name 1 way that we use Earth's resources.
What is fuels, growing plants and crops, or building?