1. Rock and Earth Science Study Guide PowerPointby
Mrs. Masters

2. Question #1
What is the name of the rock where the materials settle into layers and harden?

3. Answer #1
Sedimentary Rock

4. Question #1
What is the process of changing rock types?

5. Answer #2
Rock Cycle

6. Question #3
What is a solid material made of one or more minerals?

7. Answer #3
Rock

8. Question #4
What is a solid natural object that has never been alive?

9. Answer #4
A mineral

10. Question # 5
What is the type of rock that has been changed by heat and pressure?

11. Answer #5
metamorphic rock

12. Question #6
What is the name of Earth’s middle layer?

13. Answer #6
The mantle

14. Question #7
What is the rock that was once melted but has cooled and hardened?

15. Answer #7
Igneous rock

16. Question #8
What is the marks or remains of a once-living thing?

17. Answer # 8
A fossil

18. Question #9
What is Earth’s solid outer layer?

19. Answer # 9
The crust

20. Question #10
What is the center of the Earth?

21. Answer #10
The core

22. Question #11
Hardness, color, and shape are example of a mineral’s ____________.

23. Answer #11
properties

24. Question #12
What is formed when mud or minerals fill a mold?

25. Answer # 12
cast

26. Question #13 Iron is used in all of the following except… pencils.
buildings.
ships.

27. Answer #13
pencils

28. Question #14
Name the three types of rocks:

29. Answer #14
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock

30. Question #15
How can sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rocks?

31. Answer #15
Sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rocks by great heat and pressure.

32. Question #16
In what type of rock would scientists be most likely to find fossils?

33. Answer #16
Sedimentary Rock

34. Question #17
How do scientists know the kind of food that dinosaurs ate?

35. Answer #17
From examining their fossils and inferring if the dinosaurs were plant eaters or animal eaters based on the shape of their teeth.

36. Question #18
How might school be different if Earth’s supply of graphite ran out?

37. Answer #19
Graphite is a main ingredient in pencil lead.

38. Be able to label the main layers of the Earth.