A naturally formed solid made of one or more minerals
What is a rock
100
What type of rock is formed from a volcano?
What is igneous
100
What can a scientist imply from finding the fossil of a fish on land?
What is that it once may have been covered by water
100
rock that has been through heat and pressure
metamorphic
100
Name something that is made out of rock
(answers may vary)
200
An object that is solid, formed in nature, and has never been alive
What is a mineral
200
What is the process that shows how rocks can form into one or other forms of rocks over time?
What is the rock cycle
200
Why are plant fossils not as common as animal fossils?
The soft parts of the plant can be destroyed easily.
200
What can a scientist tell from the shapes of teeth from a fossil?
How and what they ate
200
A cast fossil is formed when mud or _______fill a mold.
What are minerals
300
The remains of a living thing that dies a long time ago
What is a fossil
300
Hardness, streak, and color are all used to identify a what?
What is a mineral
300
What is formed when mud or minerals fill a mold?
What is a cast fossil
300
Which of these is not a mineral?
granite, quartz, diamond, gold
What is granite
300
Put these in order from what would scratch the most to the least...chalk, fingernail, screw, paperclip
What is: screw, paperclip, fingernail, chalk
400
What is the name of the scale used to determine hardness of minerals?
What is The Moh's Scale
400
What is the color of the powder left behind by a mineral when it is rubbed on a flat white tile?
What is streak
400
Dinosaur tracks are a form of what type of fossil?
What is an imprint fossil
400
The three layers of the earth are the core, mantle, and ??
What is the crust
400
What are two elements that create particles to move and form sedimentary rocks.
What is wind and water
500
What type of fossil is formed when the shape of a once living thing left in sediment when rocks formed.
What is a mold
500
Name all three types of rocks and how they are formed:
igneous- from lava/inside the earths crust
metamorphic- rocks that have been changes by heat and pressure
sedimentary- rocks formed when material settles in layers
500
How is an amber fossil formed?
When an insect gets caught in sap on a tree and it hardens over time with the insect inside.
500
Why are most fossils found in sedimentary rocks?
The animal bones may be buried in the particles that formed in a sedimentary rock. Metamorphic and igneous use extreme heat, so the bones and remains might get ruined.
500
If you had a sedimentary rock in the classroom for the entore school year, could it turn into a metamorphic rock? Why or why not?
A metamorphic rock needs a lot of heat and pressure. The rock in the classroom would not get that. Also, it takes hundreds of years for some rocks to change into another.