Rocks Vocab Quiz WHCPS

What are these?

• rocks

• soils

• fossils

• organic material

What is a fossil?

• A metamorphic rock

• A type of sandy soil

• The preserved remains of a dead organism

• A rock that is soft and crumbly

What is soil?

• Soil is the preserved remains of a dead organism.

• Soil is broken down bits of sedimentary rock.

• Soil is a mixture of clay and water.

• Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air, and water.

Which of these is an organic material?

• granite

• dead leaves

• fossil

• rain

What is a sedimentary rock?

• rocks that have been changed by intense heat and pressure deep underground

• rocks made when magma or lava cools down

• rocks made of layers of other broken up rocks as well as plants and animal

• the preserved remains of dead animals

What is a metamorphic rock?

• rocks that have been changed by intense heat and pressure deep underground

• rocks made when magma or lava cools down

• rocks made of layers of other broken up rocks as well as plants and animal

• the preserved remains of dead animals

What is igneous rock?

• rocks that have been changed by intense heat and pressure deep underground

• rocks made when magma or lava cools down

• rocks made of layers of other broken up rocks as well as plants and animal

• the preserved remains of dead animals

What is the permeability of a rock?

• How many layers it is made from

• Whether it floats on water

• How hard it is

• How much water is absorbs