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Winter Potpourri
100

The mass of rocks at the end of a glacier

What is a moraine?

100

An early arthropod that existed for almost 270 million years, with over 22,000 species having been described

What is a trilobite?

100

A glacially deposited rock that is different than the local lithology

What is an erratic?

100

The name of all 4 Beatles Members

Who is John, Paul, Ringo, and George?


100

The term for the day with the least hours of sunlight all year

What is the Winter Solstice?

200

The depositional feature opposite a point bar on a river

What is a cutbank?

200

The term for fossilized feces

What is coprolite?

200

The discrete jump in reflectivity between the crust and the mantle

What is the Mohorovićić discontinuity (Moho)? 

200

The term for fans of the Grateful Dead

What are deadheads?

200

The four ingredients of eggnog

What is cream, milk, sugar, and eggs?

300

A streamlined eroded rock in a desert due to wind abrasion

What is a yardang?

300

The state fossil of Washington

What is the Columbian Mammoth?

300

The zone where deep earthquakes occur (up to 670km)

What is a Wadati-Benioff Zones?

300

The leader singer and founder of The Foo Fighters

Who is Dave Grohl?

300
The self given name of the villains in Home Alone

What is the Wet or Sticky Bandits?

400

A former tributary glacier valley that is incised into the upper part of a U-shaped glacier valley, higher than the floor of the main valley

What is a hanging valley?

400

The fossil from the Burgess Shale considered one of the first chordates

What is Pikaia?

400

An isolated mountain standing well above the surrounding topography

What is a monadnock?

400

Cofounder of Pink Floyd who left after their first album was completed

Who was Syd Barret?

400

The only holiday song to go Diamond in terms of sales

What is "All I want for Christmas is you" by Mariah Carey?

500

The German term for a freeze cracked boulder field

What is felsenmeer?

500

A transitional species that represented a key step in the evolution of vertebrates from fish to tetrapods, anatomical features that were intermediate between fish and tetrapods, including a flattened head, a neck, and robust forelimbs with wrist-like joints that were capable of supporting its weight on land

What is a Tiktaalik?

500

Icelandic term for a glacial outburst flood

What is a Jokulhlaup?

500

All three albums put out by the Jimi Hendrix Experience during his lifetime

What is Are You Experienced?, Axis Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland?

500

The best selling single of all time

What is "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby?

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