Layers of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Geological Age Dating
Geological Features
Geological Processes
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
A plate boundary where two plates moving in opposite directions.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
100
Scientists view a series of rock layers in a search for fossils. The scientists discover the bottom most rock layers contain more species than the upper layers due to this.
What is a change in environmental conditions resulting in an environment that supports greater diversity?
100
Hoodoos are created through these two processes.
What are weathering and erosion?
100
A tsunami happens after this event.
What is an earthquake?
200
The composition of the outer core.
What is liquid metal (Iron/Nickel)?
200
Earthquakes are more likely to occur here.
What are plate boundaries?
200
A rock layer found in a desert is observed to have many fish fossils due to this reason.
What is the desert used to be a lake/river/ocean/body of water?
200
Mid-ocean trenches are formed at this plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
200
The bends in a river like the one below is formed by this.
What is meandering?
300
A term used to describe a bend within a wave.
What is refraction?
300
The correct order in which a tsunami, earthquake, and plate shifting occur.
What is plate shifting, earthquake, then tsunami?
300
Coal is made from plants compressed over time. Coal can be found deep in the Arctic. This can be deduced about the biome type of the Arctic long ago.
What is the Arctic used to be warm enough to support plant life.
300
An volcano that does not form at a plate boundary is formed by this.
What is a hot spot?
300
These three cities from the image below can be selected to build skyscrapers that will be less likely to be impacted by earthquakes.
What are Shanghai, Perth, and Sydney?
400
Earthquakes are useful in determining the composition of the Earth through this type of Science.
What is seismology?
400
Random ELA!!
The genre in which a book is written about someone's life from beginning to end.
What is a biography?
400
Random MAP question!
These lines describe elevation.
What are contour lines?
400
The fossil of a reptile have been found in both South America and Africa can be explained by this.
What is continental drift (two continents used to be connected but drifted apart over time)?
400
This process forms new crust on the ocean floor.
What is seafloor spreading?
500
Random MATH!!!!
23+the square root of 25
What is 13?
500
A geological feature in which the oldest island formed is the furthest away.
What is a hot spot?
500
This rock layer used to be a desert during the layer's formation.
What is the layer with pink layer?
500
Random Math!!
a2+b2 = c2 is known as what?
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
500
These small particles are compacted to form sedimentary rock.
What are sediments?