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Microbes 'eat' living rocks.
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What is one difference in how rocks and minerals are classified?
A rock is made of 2 or more minerals, minerals make up rocks but rocks cannot make up minerals.
Does the composition of a sedimentary rock depend upon the composition of the rocks and the living things its sediments came from?
It is true that the composition of a sedimentary rock depends upon the composition of the rocks and living things its sediments come from. Sedimentary rocks form through lithification.
Why have sedimentary rocks been very important to scientists who study how living things have changed over the ages?
The vast majority of fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Fossils are they key to understanding what living things used to be like.
What are the non-living organisms in a hot desert ecosystem?
There is no such thing as a non-living organism. If an organism is not living, it is dead. There are such things as abiotic (non-living) factors, however: soil, sand, rocks, water, air.
Are rocks living things?
no they are not because they cant breath or do anything what humans do except grow. They grow by water and move because moving is growing.
Do pill bugs eat rocks?
No. No insect eats rocks.
Are rocks living or nonliving?
rocks are minerals and classed as non living.
Are rocks made out of matter that was never living?
Some rocks are made of matter that was never living (e.g. meteoric rocks, igneous rocks, moon rocks) and some rocks are made of matter that was once part of living things (e.g. limestone rocks, marble rocks, iron ore rocks) and some rocks might be a mixture of matter that was never living and matter that was once part of living things (e.g. sandstone rocks, mudstone rocks, shale rocks, slate rocks).
Is there such thing as a living rock?
There are organic rocks derived from once living things, but there are no living rocks.
Can rocks change into a living thing?
No... No... No... and No...! Living things have got life but rocks dont.
What is red and eats rocks?
a red rock eater
What can be formed when a river erodes rocks from an area?
A canyon can be formed where the water eats away on the rocks.
What is the difference between an organism and rocks?
The atoms in the rocks are non-living and the atoms in the organisms are living and the atoms in the rocks do not combine to form living cells and the atoms in the organism combine to form living cells
Do rocks and minerals provide food?
No I do not think so, because I can't think of anything that eats rocks.
How does a chicken digest food?
It eats rocks too help it
What happens if a dog eats pop rocks?
Instantaneous Death!
What type f rocks come from living things?
the type of rocks that don't come from living things is .
