The type of rock formed from molten rock, magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
100
The biome characterized by high humidity, warmth, and an abundance of animal and plant species.
What is the tropical rain forest?
100
The energy-rich substances formed from the remains of living organisms.
What are fossil fuels?
100
Name for the upper leg bone.
What is the femur?
100
The name for the upper arm bone.
What is the humerus?
200
The type of rock that fossils are found in.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This biome is characterized by an abundance of grass-like plants that support an extendend food chain of herbivores and carnivores.
What is a savannah, grassland, or prairie?
200
Another name for oil.
What is petroleum?
200
Name for the collar bone?
What is clavicle?
200
Another name for the knee cap.
What is patella?
300
The event that caused the formation of metamorphic rocks in Western NC.
What is mountain building (plate collision)?
300
This biome is characterized by aglae that live within rock structures on the ocean floor that support a food chain of the most diverse ecosystems in the oceans.
What are coral reefs?
300
3 examples of renewable energy.
What are solar, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydrogen fuels?
300
Name for the lower jaw bone?
What is mandible?
300
The name for the smaller bone of the lower leg?
What is the fibula?
400
The metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to tremendous heat and pressure.
What is marble?
400
A biome characterized by many trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year.
What is a deciduous forest?
400
The three major fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
400
Name for the bones of the ankles?
What are tarsals?
400
The name for the bones of the hand.
What are metacarpels?
500
The igneous rock that forms where magma hardens at the mid-ocean ridges as it forms new oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
500
The "leafy roof" formed by the tall, lush tress of the rain forest.
What is the canopy?
500
Type of energy that uses stored energy in the nucleus of the atom.
What is nuclear energy?
500
Name for the forearm bone on the side of the thumb?