Vocabulary
True or False
Then, Now, or Both
Earth's Surface
What Am I?
100
The remains or traces of past life, usually found in sedimentary rock.
What is fossil?
100
Some kinds of living things have not changed in millions of years.
What is true?
100
Trilobite
What is then?
100
What is a hurricane?
100
Igneous, metamorphic, Sedimentary
What are the 3 types of ricks?
200
The study of fossils
What is paleontology?
200
Every kind of living thing has been preserved as a fossil.
What is false?
200
Dinosaur
What is then?
200
Thick sheets of moving ice
What are glaciers?
200
Rocks that form from molten magma
What are igneous rocks?
300
The process of breaking down rocks into small particles.
What is a weathering?
300
The oldest layer of a rock is the top layer.
What is false?
300
Horse with one toe protected by a hoof.
What is now?
300
What does this fossils indicate?
What is this used to be an ocean?
What is a fish once lived here?
300
The largest and strongest hurricane 3rd strongest hurricane that made landfall in the U.S. It flooded over 80% of New Orleans.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
400
The process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind and water.
What is erosion?
400
Pangea was an ancient, giant continent.
What is true?
400
wooly mammoth
What is then?
400
Dead organisms' hard body parts fossilize in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
I lived during the Ice Age. I had thick fur to keep me war. I had very long tusks to help me dig in the ice. I was very large.
What is a woolly mammoth
500
A fossil of an organism that lived in many places around the world for a short period of time.
What is an index fossil?
500
A fish fossil found in the desert is evidence that the land where the fossil was found was once under water.
What is true?
500
Sea scorpion
What is then?
500
Entire animals (spiders, insects) can be preserved when they are trapped in tree sap that hardens.
What is amber?
500
I was formed by erosion and water. I was under water and was the home to many prehistoric animals. Tiny pieces of rock was deposited into the Colorado River. Then the layers started forming mountains.
What is the Grand Canyon?