Rock and Fossils Lesson

When magma from the Earth’s core cools down, it turns into rock. This type of rock is called …

• Igneous rocks

• Metamorphic rocks

• Sedimentary rocks

Metamorphic rocks are formed under ....

• Heavy rain and snow

• Heat and pressure

• sediments

Gradually more and more layers build up over millions of years and the sediment turns to …

• mountains

• igneous rocks

• sedimentary rocks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Fossils are______________________________

• are oldest rocks on Earth's surface

• body parts of dead animals

• traces and remains of plants and animals that lived ten thousand years ago

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Not all fossils were once living

• True

• False

What is NOT a good place to find fossils?

• rocks

• garden

• ice