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Rocks
Differential Erosion
Vocab
Essay Questions
Fossils
100
limestone
What is the name of the rock that contains calcite?
100
steps or cliffs
What does differential erosion look like after it happens?
100
somthing that formds in nature is a solid and has a definite chemical make up
What is a mineral?
100
the limewater represented ancient sea water the blowin g represented sea organisms exhaling
IN the limewater experiment what did the blowing represent?
100
a remnat or trace of a plant or animal embeded into earths surface
What is a fossil?
200
minerals
What are all rocks made of?
200
soft and weak rock
what kind of rock erodes more in differential erosion?
200
most ahve imperfect shapes a solid which the atoms are ranged
What is the definition of crystals?
200
a remnat of a plant or animal embeded into a rock
What is a fossil?
200
sedimentary rock makes a good fossil copared to igneos and metamorphic rocks
What is a rock that makes a good fossil?
300
metamorphic rocks
what rocks are formed by heat and/or pressure?
300
Mexican Hat, Utah
What is an example of differential erosion?
300
a representation of something that is difficult to observe directly
What is a model?
300
the process rock particles take to become a rock
what is the rock cycle?
300
index fossils are rocks that lived for a short period of time every where
What is an index fossil
400
sedimentary
If a rock contains fossils what type of rock is it most likely to be?
400
the softer rock eroids away leaving behind steps or cliffs
Why does it become looking like steps or cliffs?
400
the color of powder left behind when you scrape a rock on a streak plate.
What is streak?
400
landforms shaped like steps or cliffs
What is differention erosion?
400
sedimentary rocks
what kinds of rocks contain fossils?
500
when sea organisms exhale
How does calcite form (carbon dioxide)?
500
when a mountain or plateua is made out of both soft and hard rock the soft rock eroids away leaving behind the hard rock
How does differential erosion happen?
500
nature's glue that holds rocks together
What is a matrix?
500
sorting of rocks or putting rocks into groups
What is correlation?
500
the remains or traces of an organism that have been preserved in earths crust are called ______________
fossils