A Bit Rocky
The type of rock you would most likely find a fossil in.
What is sedementary rock?
This volcano has a gentle slope, is nonexplosive, and the lava is runny and spreads over a wide area.
Refers to different layers of earth that can tell us relative age and chronology of geological events over time.
What is stratigraphy?
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform are types of this.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
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Name of a black glossy volcanic rock where the crystals are so small you can't see them.
What is obsidian?
A type of flow that is the most explosive and deadly of all volcanic activity.
What is a pyroclastic flow.
The group of planets that are closer to the Sun.
What are terrestrial planets?
This is the theory that explains how younger rock layers are more recent in time with older more ancient layers at the bottom layers.
What is superposition?
The hypothesis that states our continents were once formed as a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
What is Continental Drift?
Another name for igneous rock which forms small crystals and is produced when magma exits and cools above (or very near) the Earth's surface.
Extrusive rock
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This mineral can make volcanoes more explosive as well as cause the magma's viscosity to be much lower allowing it flow easier.
What is silica?
The phase of the moon when it is between the Sun and the Earth and appears invisible.
What is a New Moon.
A geological time period in which many species disappear as the result of an environmental or cataclysmic event.
What is an extinction event?
When two plates pull away from each other.
What is a divergent plate?
A name that describes when magma is trapped inside the Earth forming large crystals or granite.
Intrusive rocks
Molten rock found deep underground that feeds a volcano.
What is Magma?
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A Jupiter moon that may have conditions suitable for life.
What is Europa?
A type of fossil that allows one to use relative dating to determine the date of other organisms found within the same layer.
What is an index fossil?
This continent will eventually split in two and create a new ocean basin.
What is the current activity of the African tectonic plates?
What comes after metamorphic rock is melted in the rock cycle?
What is magma?
The name of the famous volcano that erupted in Pompeii Italy in 79 AD.
What is Vesuvius
The shape of the Earth.
What is an ellipsoid? A spheroid, or ellipsoid, is a sphere flattened at the poles.
The name of the scientist who studies ancient life.
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Refers to a method of dating fossils that is approximate and does not give a specific quantitative date.
What is a paleontologist?
What is relative dating?
When tectonic plates converge, causing a plate to slide beneath the other.
What is subduction.