What is the "stinky" yellow mineral found in Texas, Mississippi, and Lousianna called?
Sulfur
100
What is the name of the "supercontinent" that existed about 250 million years ago (before the component continents were separated into their current configuration)?
Da': Pangaea, Pangæa or Pangea
100
Deep below the ocean's surface lies a rich source of minerals, yet many minerals and metals are obtained by mining land.
Why do you think this is so?
The ocean's minerals are harder to reach than the land's.
100
Name the type of rocks made from sediments (an example is sandstone).
Sedimentary Rocks!
100
What type of fuel is made from the remains of once-living things?
Fossil Fuel
200
Which metal is found around the Great Lakes?
Iron
200
If you were in the center of the Earth, what layer would you be in?
Da' Inner Core
200
Waves can erode a beach. What is another agent that can erode a beach?
Wind
200
Name the type of rocks that are "changed" by heat and pressure (like sandstone changing into quartzite).
Metamorphic Rocks!
200
What is a glacier?
A huge mass of ice that moves over land.
300
What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs' Scale of hardness?
Diamond
300
What is the "eggshell" thin layer of the Earth called?
Da' Crust
300
How can a storm affect a beach?
A. Storms can erode a beach with their wind and waves.
B. Storms can also cause a beach to build up.
300
What kind of rock is formed by magma (molten rock) being cooled and becoming solid (examples- granite and obsidian)?
Igneous Rocks!
300
Which soil layer provides nutients that plants need for growth?
Topsoil
400
Name one of October's birthstones.
opal, pink tourmaline, rose quartz
400
The Earth's crust is theorized to be seperated into many pieces or plates (like a broken eggshell).
Name this theory.
Da' Plate tectonics
400
What triangular formation is formed when river sediment is deposited due to loss of energy (like when a river meets an ocean)?
A delta
400
An igneous rock that cools very fast (like volcanic rocks) are what type of ignous rock?
Extrusive Igneous Rocks!
400
What is a glacial moraine?
Material deposited along the sides and front of a glacier
500
What mineral is named after its "blood red" streak (oxidation from iron)?
hematite
500
Most geologists believe the Earth is about how old?
Da' 4.6 Billion Years Old
500
Name the structure extending into a body of water, which protects a harbor or coastline from the effects of currents and tides (this structure would save your sand from drifting down to your neighbor's beach).
Jetty
500
What is Wisconsin's State Rock (it is commonly used to make kitchen countertops) ?
(hints: it is pinkish-RED in color)
Red Granite
500
If a herd of cows grazed on grass in the same place all year, then how would this affect the land?
Name all three.
1. All plants might get eaten
2. Land would weather
3. Plants would not grow back next year