Fossils/Dinosaurs
Rocks
The Earth
Volcanoes
Minerals
100

This is the person who digs up dinosaur bones/fossils.

What is a paleontologist?

100

These are the three factors that make rocks.

What are heat, pressure and time?

100

There are this many layers of the earth

What is four?

100

This is the liquid that is still inside the earth

What is magma?

100

These are natural substances found in the earth or the building blocks of rocks (think about the salt experiment and what salt is)

What are minerals?

200

Thisis the preserved imprint or body of a plant or animal that died many years ago .

What is a fossil?

200

This type of rock comes directly from a volcano

What is igneous rock?

200

This is the very first, or top, layer of the earth

What is the crust?

200

This is the liquid that comes out of a volcano

What is lava?

200

This mineral is _________.


What is quartz?

300

This is the shape of something left on a surface due to pressure (think of the playdough example). 

What is an impression?

300

This type of rock is made when igneous rocks are changed into another rock

What is metamorphic?

300

This is the second layer of the earth

What is the mantle?

300

This is a place where very hot water comes out of the earth

What is a geyser?

300

We use this word to describe things, or to help classify them in to catagories.

What are characteristics?

400

This term is used to describe something that is no longer alive or existing.

What is extinct?

400

This type of rock is a bunch of rocks cemented together

What is sedimentary?

400

This is the third layer of the earth

What is the outer core?

400

These places are formed by volcanos in the ocean

What are islands?

400

These are stones that are cut and polisehed to be used in jewelry

What are gemstones?

500

Fossils are formed over a short period of time or a long period of time.

What is a long period of time?

500

This person studies rocks.

What is a geologist?

500

The mantle is ________ (solid or liquid)

What is mostly solid?

500

Destructive means NOT causing damage

What is false?
500

These things are important in creating minerals.

What is heat, time and pressure?