What are different ways minerals are used in everyday life?
Food, jewelry, pencils, etc
100
Which type of soil is the remains of decayed plants and animals?
What is humus.
100
What are fossils?
What is the remains of living things that have transformed into stone over millions of years.
100
What is a natural resource?
A natural resource is something that comes from and is made on Earth.
200
Rocks are made up of ______________.
What is minerals.
200
True or False: A mineral is a living substance found in nature.
What is False: NONliving
200
Which type of soil is found near the beach?
What is sand.
200
Which type of rock are most fossils found in? Why?
What is sedimentary.
200
Give two examples of natural resources.
What is oil, coal, gas, air, water, etc.
300
Which type of rock is found near volcanoes and may have a glassy look to it?
What is igneous rocks.
300
Why is color not a good property to use to classify minerals?
Many minerals are the same color so another type of property would be needed to specifiy which minerals are which.
300
Which soil feels like very soft powder?
What is silt.
300
Describe the process of replacement.
When minerals in the groundwater actually replace the minerals that make up the remains, so over time the hard parts are completely replaced by the other minerals.
300
What does nonrenewable mean?
What is a resource CANNOT be used again.
400
What rocks are formed inside and under the Earth's Crust?
What is Metamorphic and Sedimentary.
400
Name at least two of the different properties and how they are used.
What is color, magnetism, luster, hardness
400
Which type of soil is best used to pot plants in?
What is humus.
400
What are the two types of fossils called when a hard part such as a shell, fills up with sediments that harden and then the actual shell dissolves leaving nothing but the sediemtn mold.
What is impressions, and molds.
400
Give two examples of how both coal and oil are used in everyday life?
Coal: light fires, heat homes, electricity, trains, ships
Oil: made into gas to help cars and planes run, heat homes, etc.
500
Explain how our activity with the different types of foods represents each of the rocks.
Igneous- chocolates melted and dried to form a solid "rock"
Metamorphic- Airheads were smushed together using pressure to form a new "rock" or airhead.
Sedimentary- Using graham crackers and icing we layered each item to create one "sandwich" or rock.
500
How is Moh's Hardness Scale used? *What is the hardest/softest mineral?
Moh's scale is used to rank all minerals in order of the softest to hardest.
*Diamond
*Talc
500
How does soil help living things survive?
What is it provides shelter, food, acts as an anchor to hold plants in, etc.
500
Explain how scientists in the movie Jurassic Park used dinosaur DNA to create the dinosaurs. (Hint think about trees)
What is they found the DNA in stomachs of the misquitos which were trapped in amber in trees which became fossilized tree sap.
500
If our world was to run out of oil or coal what would happen?