Tuesday, May 22, 2018



Dear Parents
These are the first 2 sheets in the science Final Revision.

Review and Test Preparation 1
Vocabulary Review

Match the terms to the definitions below.

rock 

1. Trace or remains of a living thing that died long ago

2. Rock that was once melted and then cooled and hardened

3. An object that is solid, has never been alive and was 

formed in nature

4. A rock formed from a material that settled in layers

5. A solid made of one or more minerals

6. A rock changed by heat and pressure


Check Understanding

Write the letter of the best choice.

7. MAIN IDEA AND DETAILS Which tells a way most minerals are identified?

A. beauty
B. heat

8. COMPARE AND CONTRAST How are casts different from molds?
F. Casts are only found in the mantle.
G. Casts are plant fossils. Molds are animal fossils.
H. Casts are materials that fill up a mold.
J. Casts are fossils. Molds are not.



9. Which do the drawings show?


A. how a fossil forms

B. how a mineral forms

C. how igneous rocks form

D. how to classify kinds of rocks

10. Which is most important in forming igneous rocks?

F. fossil models

G. melting

H. cool temperatures

J. dead plants and animals

11. Which is an imprint fossil?

A. a petrified tree

B. a dinosaur footprint

C. a dinosaur bone

D. an insect trapped in sap

12. Which process is shown in the drawing?















F. how sediments build up

G. how imprint fossils form

H. how metamorphic rocks form

J. how sandstone forms

13. Which would be needed to form sedimentary rocks?

A. a volcano

B. casts and molds

C. pressure and temperature

D. wind and water


14. Which is not a way to identify a mineral?

F. by its outside color

G. by its hardness

H. by doing a streak test

J. by trying to break it

15. What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs Scale?

A. apatite

B. copper

C. diamond

D. talc

16. Which could a scientist infer about a place that has fish fossils?

F. The place was once land.

G. That place is a sea now.

H. That place was once a sea.

J. The fish did not live in water.



























































































C. smell
D. streak










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