Rock n' roll
Fossils
Mother Earth
Wild Card
100
When a rock has a lot of spaces or holes
What is porous
100
Why might it be hard for seaweed to fossilize
What is it is too soft to fossilize well
100
What process is responsible for forming a sea arch
What is erosion
100
This is the part of an atom that can be transferred in chemical reactions
What is electrons
200
The type of rock that is typically porous
What is sedimentary rock (ex. shale, sandstone, limestone)
200
Why might you find fossils of sea creatures at the top of Mt. Everest?
What is because the rock layer wase once part of the sea floor
200
Which layer of earth includes tectonic plates
What is the crust
200
In photosynthesis what is used in the leaves a long with sunlight energy to help create food?
What is chlorophyll
300
This allows us to identify the sequence in which rocks form based on their horizontal layers.
What is the law of superposition
300
A fossil that is widely distributed and also is an organism that lived for a short period of time.
What is an index fossil
300
This is believed to cause the sudden cooling and decrease in sunlight reaching the Earth's surface that resulted in a mass extinction
What is the impact of an asteroid
300
If you have 3 people pulling a box to the west and two pulling a box to the east, which direction would the box move?
What is East.
400
The process of water, ice, wind or gravity that moves weathered particles of rock and soil
What is erosion
400
When minerals and water seep into bone replacing the chemicals in the bone this process is occuring
What is fossilization
400
Draw a model of convection currents
What is....ANSWERS MAY VARY
400
When you have a chemical reaction, the mass of the products is _________ __________ the mass of the reactants
What is equal to
500
This occurs in layers of rock due to Earthquakes
What is a fault
500
The technique developed to allow scientists to determine the absolute age of fossils by looking at how they decay
What is radioactive dating
500
Hurricane Katrina negatively effected the Coast of Louisiana by causing more erosion. What type of erosion could the Hurricane have caused.
What is wind and wave erosion
500
List 3 ways to determine a rocks age. 1 must be a method for relative age and one must be a method for finding absolute age
What is 1. Examine Index Fossils 2. Radioactive dating 3. The Law of Superposition
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