Rock Types
100: What are the three main types of rocks?
Answer: What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100: What is the process called by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces?
Answer: What is weathering?
100: What is the basic building block of rocks?
Answer: What is a mineral?
100: What is physical weathering?
Answer: What is the breaking down of rocks without chemical change?
100: What are fossils?
Answer: What are the remains or traces of ancient life?
200: Which type of rock is formed from cooled magma or lava?
Answer: What is igneous rock?
Answer: What is igneous rock?
200: What is the term for the movement of rocks and sediments from one place to another?
Answer: What is erosion?
200: Name a common mineral found in granite.
Answer: What is quartz?
200: What is chemical weathering?
Answer: What is the breakdown of rocks through chemical reactions?
200: How are fossils typically formed?
Answer: What is through the process of burial and mineralization?
300: What type of rock is formed from the compaction and cementation of sediments?
Answer: What is sedimentary rock?
300: Describe how sedimentary rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
Answer: What is through heat and pressure?
300: What are the properties used to identify minerals?
Answer: What are color, luster, hardness, and streak?
300: Name one factor that affects the rate of weathering.
Answer: What is climate, rock type, or surface area?
300: Name one type of organism that can become a fossil.
Answer: What are dinosaurs, plants, or marine life?
400: What type of rock is formed under heat and pressure?
Answer: What is metamorphic rock?
400: How do igneous rocks form from sedimentary rocks?
Answer: What is through melting and cooling?
400: What is the hardest mineral known?
Answer: What is diamond?
400: What is an example of biological weathering?
Answer: What is the growth of plant roots breaking rocks?
400: What do fossils tell us about Earth's history?
Answer: (Student's explanation will vary; should include information about past climates and life forms.)
500: Name one example of each type of rock.
Answer: What are granite (igneous), sandstone (sedimentary), and schist (metamorphic)?
500: Explain the rock cycle in your own words.
Answer: (Student's explanation will vary, but should include the process of rock transformation.)
500: How can minerals be classified?
Answer: What are silicates and non-silicates?
500: How does weathering contribute to the rock cycle?
Answer: (Student's explanation will vary, but should include how weathering creates sediments.)
500: How can fossils be used to date rocks?
Answer: What is using index fossils to identify relative ages?