Fossils
This is a kind of fossil that existed for a very short period of time but over a very large area.
What is an index fossil?
How long ago scientists believe the earth and the solar system formed.
4.6 billion years ago
or
4600 million years ago
The Adirondack Mountains are made out of this kind of rock.
What is metamorphic rock? (Also will accept Gneiss, Quartzite, Marble)
This is the name of the model where the solar system revolves around the Sun.
What is Heliocentric?
This law suggests that all objects in the universe are moving away from each other?
What is Hubble's Law?
The kind of rock most fossils are found in.
What is a sedimentary rock?
Events like these mark the ends of eras.
What are mass extinctions?
The Milky Way Galaxy's shape can be described as this.
What is Spiral?
This widely accepted theory explains how our universe began.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This colorful term describes what we see when objects in the universe are moving away from us.
What is "Red shifting?'
What is a tropical marine environment?
Eras are broken up into these smaller periods of time.
What are periods?
These are the three types of unconformities?
What are angular, disconformity, and nonconformity?
When the wavelength is increasing, the frequency is decreasing. What effect does this most relate to?
What is the Doppler Effect?
The fossil record indicates that the majority of plants and animals that lived on Earth in the past have done this.
What is "become extinct"?
During this segment of Earth's geologic time, fossils are rarely found.
What is the Precambrian?
A mountain building event is called this.
The process of hotter things rising and cooler things sinking. It's the driving force behind plate tectonics.
What is convection?
This process explains how lighter/smaller objects combine to become heavier/larger objects.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
Trilobite fossils from different time periods show small changes in appearance. These observations suggest that the changes may be a result of this.
What is evolutionary development/evolution?
What is "volcanic ash is spread over a large area in a short period of time?"
During nuclear fusion, these two things are created.
What are Helium and Energy/Light?
What are coalesce and accretion?
According the to ESRT, what are the three stages of a star?
What are: Main sequence, Supergiants/Giants, White Dwarfs?