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Rock Types
Sedimentary 1
Fossil 1
Sedimentary 2
Fossil 2
100
Rock that formed when layers were pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
This type of rock has layers where fossils can form.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
A scientist found a seashell fossil in the desert. The type of environment that used to exist here.
What is sea or ocean?
100
Layer in sedimentary rock that is the oldest.
What is the bottom layer?
100
Fossils are found inn this type of rock?
What is sedimentary?
200
Rock that is formed from lava or magma that has cooled.
What is igneous rock?
200
The force that causes sediment to settle in a riverbed.
What is gravity?
200
True or false: Most living things die and become fossils.
What is false?
200
A jar with pebbles, rocks and soil is shaken in a jar with water. The order they will settle, starting with the bottom.
What is rocks, pebbles and soil?
200
Name of the scientist that searches and studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
300
Rock that forms from existing rocks that have been squeezed and heated deep in the Earth's crust.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
In sedimentary rock, the sequence of age in the rock formation from the top to bottom.
What is youngest to oldest?
300
What rock layers can tell us about fossils found there.
What is their age or their environment?
300
A type of sedimentary rock?
What is sandstone or limestone?
300
A diagram shows a rock layer with fish fossils under a rock layer with leaf fossils. On top of the leaf layer there is a layer with cactus fossils. The sequence of environments, starting with the oldest.
What is the ocean, then forest, then desert?
400
Granite is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
400
Where can rocks of different layers, types and ages be found?
What is everywhere on Earth?
400
The name of the material that comes from tree sap and traps small animals, like insects, for many years.
What is amber?
400
The name of the place in Arizona that is an excellent example of sedimentary rock.
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
Finding fossils of this kind in rock layers below a forest would lead to the conclusion that the area was once a lake long ago.
What are freshwater fish fossils?
500
Gneiss is this type of rock?
What is metamorphic rock?
500
The action that has to happen to form a fossil.
What is pressure, squeezing or cementing?
500
Type of fossil formed when hard parts of an organism were replaced by minerals.
What is petrified wood or cast?
500
The reason most sedimentary rock forms in the ocean.
What is "most bits of broken rock or sediment are deposited there"?
500
Name of the location where the latest mammoth was found in ice.
What is Siberia?