General
People who study rocks.
What is Geologist?
Examples of this property include gray, green, red, purple, brown, etc.
What is color?
Rock made when sediment is squished together.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Layer of soil, unweathered rock that supports all of the other layers.
What is Bedrock?
The process of rocks breaking down due to rain, wind, temperature.
What is Weathering?
Made up of one ingredient.
What is Mineral?
Examples of this property include smooth, rough, bumpy, etc.
What is texture?
Rocks that start as sedimentary or igneous but change due to heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
Layer that includes a mixture of sand, silt and clay.
What is Subsoil?
Item used to represent rocks in our weathering experiment.
What is Sugar Cubes?
Made up of one or more minerals or ingredients.
What is Rock?
The property that uses MOH’s hardness scale.
What is Hardness?
Rocks that can be intrusive or extrusive depending on how fast lava cools.
What is Igneous Rock?
Layer of soil where seeds are planted.
What is Topsoil?
Condition that was simulated by you blowing at the “rocks” through a straw in the weathering experiment.
What is Wind?
Layer of the earth where rocks and minerals are extracted from.
What is Crust?
The property that describes the powder that is left behind when a rock or mineral is rubbed against a hard surface.
What is Streak?
Main thing that characterizes sedimentary rocks.
What is Layers?
Layer that sits on the top of the soil and has living, or once living, plants and animals.
What is Humus?
Amount of time it takes for rocks to break down.
What is Thousands or Millions of Years?
The thickest layer of the earth.
What is Mantle?
The property that describes what happens when a rock or mineral breaks when put under stress.
What is Cleavage?
The meaning of the word “morph” when talking about metamorphic rocks.
What is Change or Transform?
The layer that was represented by chocolate chips in our Layers of Soil Activity. This layer has weathered rock but nothing living in it.
What is Gravel?
Name of the process that occurs when small pieces of weathered rock are moved to new places.
What is Erosion?