SGE
What does SGE stand for?
What is Sigma Gamma Epsilon
What are the three main types of rocks?
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
How many oceans are there?
What is 5 oceans
What is today?
What is Earth Day
What is the fifth planet from the Sun?
What is Jupiter?
What were the names of the guest speakers from the Career Circle?
Who is Baylee Macbeth and Elise Kopeke
On May 18,1980, what Washington State volcano erupted, killing more than 50 people?
What is Mount St. Helens
What is it called when tropical atmospheric circulation patterns where warm air rises at the equator, moves poleward, cools, and sinks back to the surface
What is a Hadley Cell?
What is the long term transformation of silicate rcoks to carbonate rocks by wearthering and sedimentation and transformation of carbonate rocks back into silicate rocks by metamorphism and vulcanism?
The Carbonate-Silicate Geochemical Cycle
What is the name of NASA's 10-day lunar flyby mission?
Artemis 2
How many volunteer events did SGE have this semester and what were they?
What is 2, one with concrete jungle and another with WAWA/ MLK day of service
The branch of geology that studies the origin, composition, structure, and evolution of rocks is called what
What is Petrology
Corals create a hard exoskeleton by excreting what chemical compound
What is Calcium Carbonate
What American river caught fire in 1969, leading to major environmental action?
What is The Cuyahoga River.
A stream of highly charged particles emitted by the sun
What is Solar Wind?
What Chapter of SGE are we in?
What is the Theta Chi Chapter
A surficial deposit of clay, silt, sand and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta is called what?
What is Alluvium
Often referred to as the 'Sunlight Zone', what layer of the ocean extends from the surface to around 200m
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
What 1962 Rachel Carson book addressed the environmental effects of pesticides?
What is Silent Spring
The theory that the Sun and planets formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant, rotating interstellar cloud of gas and dust is called.
What is the nebula theory?
When was SGE founded as an organization (not at Tech)?
What is March 30, 1915?
What is it called when a glacier reaches the sea and breaks into chunks?
What is Ice Claving?
The rate at which an unsaturated (dry) parcel of air cools as it rises or warms as it descends
What is
per kilometer (roughly
per
9.8 per km or 3 C per 1,000 ft/ Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate
How many continents on Earth have no deserts
What is one
What are the five positions in space where the gravitational forces of two large bodies (like the Sun and Earth) balance the centrifugal force felt by a smaller object
What are Lagrange Points