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Vocabulary
Types of Rocks
Dinosaurs
Miscellaneous
Earth
100
A _________ is made out of minerals. Some ___________ are made of just one. Other __________ are made out of many minerals
What is a rock?
100
This type of rock is formed from layers of sand, salt, dirt, and clay
What is sedimentary
100
True/False- Dinosaurs roamed the Earth thousands of years ago
What is FALSE
100
Name 3 things that minerals can be used to make
What are statues, buildings, clay pots, streets, steps...answers will vary
100
This place on Earth is the best for searching for fossils
What is a desert?
200
A __________ is an imprint of a plant or animal.
What is a fossil?
200
This type of rock is formed by CHANGING due to heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic
200
Scientists believe this is what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.
What is an asteroid?
200
The process of one rock changing to another is called the
What is rock cycle
200
What does the term exist mean?
What is alive and real
300
Name the three layers of the Earth
What is the crust, mantle, and core
300
This type of rock is melted into lava and has now cooled and hardened
What is igneous.
300
Scientists believe that dinosaurs evolved into this type of animal that we see today
What are birds?
300
Name three birthstones (100 points for each)
What are...answers will vary
300
From the brainpop mineral game- what does it mean if a mineral wears well?
It means that it is hard and does not rub off easily
400
Dinosaurs were ____________, meaning they were cold blooded animals with scaly skin.
What is reptiles?
400
This rock is the softest rock known to man
What is talc?
400
Name 4 extinct animals besides dinosaurs
What are the dodo, wooly mammoth, carrier pigeon, sabretooth tiger, etc...answers will vary
400
Name the four types of fossils from the Brainpop video (100 points for each)
What are trace, cast, body, and mold
400
Describe what fossil fuels are and how they are formed
What is oil, gas, coal...they are formed by decomposing plants and animals
500
Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat. What do you call an animal that eats both?
What is an omnivore
500
This is the name of the scale we use to measure a rocks hardness?
What is the Mohs scale?
500
Name 5 dinosaurs (100 points for each)
What are...answers will vary
500
What does igneous and metamorphic mean in Latin?
What are "rock of fire" and "change"
500
Name 3 of the 4 ways we can help animals not become extinct
What are lessen commercial fishing, stop deforestation, stop using chemicals, and lessen factories