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Rocks
Rocks Rock
Rocks change
Soil
Fossils
100
A Scientist who studies rocks.
What is geologist?
100
Three possible properties of a rock.
What is size, color, luster, hardness?
100
The way water and wind change rocks.
What is weathering?
100
This is made up of tiny rocks and bits of plants and animals.
What is soil?
100
What is left of a living thing from the past.
What is a fossil?
200
What all rocks are made of.
What are minerals?
200
This is the most common color of rocks.
What is gray?
200
This can get in cracks of rock and freeze to cause a rock to break.
What is water?
200
Name three types of soil.
What is clay, sandy, and top soil?
200
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
300
It tells you something about an object..
What is property?
300
Two ways that we use minerals each day.
What is pencil, plants, food?
300
This is a way in which rocks can become smaller.
When a rock slides down a hill and becomes smaller
300
This causes clay soil to be red.
What is iron?
300
When a living thing has died out and there is none of it's kind left on earth.
What is extinct?
400
Describes how a mineral looks when light shines on it.
What is luster?
400
This mineral is so soft that you can scratch it with your fingernail.
What is talc?
400
This can cause the shape of a rock to change.
What is wind or water?
400
Most plants grow best in this type of soil.
What is topsoil?
400
A full set of bones.
What is a skeleton?
500
How tough a rock is.
What is hardness?
500
This is the hardess mineral.
What is a diamond?
500
This is another thing that can change rocks besides weathering.
What is earthquake?
500
This soil holds the most water.
What is topsoil?
500
The four stages of a fossil being formed.
What is living thing dies, soft parts rot away, minerals replace bones and teeth and harden into rock, found as fossils millions of years later.