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Rocks
Rock Cycle
Minerals
Fossils
Earth's Structure
100
A person who studies the earth.
What is a geologist?
100
The process that changes rocks from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
100
A natural, solid, inorganic substance that has a specific chemical make-up.
What is a mineral?
100
A mark or remain of something that lived a long time ago.
What is a fossil?
100
A break in the Earth's surface where lava, ashes, rocks and other materials come out.
What is a volcano?
200
Rocks that are formed by pressure.
What are Sedimentary rocks?
200
These two words mean the same thing but one is hot, liquid rock below the earth's surface and one is above the earth's surface. (2 answers)
What are magma and lava?
200
A place where rocks and minerals are taken out of the ground.
What is mine?
200
Fossils are formed in THESE types of rock.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
The shaking of the ground caused by rock movement along a fault.
What is earthquake?
300
Rocks that are formed by heat.
What are Igneous rocks?
300
Erosion of Igneous, Metaphoric and Sedimentary rocks all turn into this.
What is sediment?
300
The melting of an ore to separate the metal from the rock.
What is smelting?
300
A body or body part fossil can be preserved in tree sap, tar pits, ice and this.
What is dry desert sand? (mummification)
300
The earth has___________large plates and___________small plates.
What is 7 and 13?
400
Rocks that are formed by heat AND pressure.
What are Metaphoric rocks?
400
When Metamorphic and Igneous rocks melt it turns into this.
What is magma?
400
Shininess and the color of a mineral's powder when scraped on a hard surface. (2 answers)
What are luster and streak?
400
Mold is the space that is left after an organism decays and THIS fills in mold that looks like the organism.
What is cast?
400
Draw a picture on the white board showing and labeling the layers of the Earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantel and crust?
500
What type of rock is marble?
What is Metamorphic?
500
True or False. Sedimentary rocks can change directly into Igneous rocks.
What is False? They can only turn into Metamorphic rocks through heat and pressure.
500
The name of the scale used in measuring a mineral's hardness
What is Moh's Scale?
500
A scientist who wants to learn about the Earth's past.
What is a Paleontologist?
500
The name of the scale for measuring earthquakes.
What is Richter Scale?