Vocabulary
Tiny pieces of rocks, mud, and dead plants and animals
Sediment
Formed from pre-existing small pieces of other rocks, mud, and dead organisms
Sedimentary Rock
What is the strongest mineral?
Diamond
Water
True or False: A Fossil is at least 5,000 years old
False: Fossils are at least 10,000 years old
Plates that make up the Earth's crust
Tectonic
True or False: Fossils are often found in igneous rocks
What scale is used to rank the hardness of minerals
Mohs' Scale
Can cause erosion very quickly
Floods
Fossils that help show what a plant or animal looked like are called what?
Body Fossils
"Building blocks" that create all rocks
Minerals
What are scientists who study rocks called?
Geologist
What property is used to describe how a mineral reflects light?
Luster
True or False: Wind is one of the strongest kinds of erosion on Earth.
False: Wind is one of the weakest.
True or False: Most plants or animals do not become fossils
True
What is the slow breakdown of rocks and minerals called?
Weathering
Type of rock that makes up the crust under the ocean
Basalt
Diamonds, Emeralds, and sapphires are examples of what?
Gem stones
What caused the erosion of the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado River
What can preserve soft body parts of a dead plant or animal?
Ice
What type of scientist studies fossils?
Paleontologist
What layer of Earth creates our magnetic field?
Outer Core
Cleavage and Fracture are descriptions of what property of minerals?
How a mineral breaks apart
What are three types of water erosion?
What is fossilized resin called?
Amber