Rocks
Fossils
Earth History
Earth History 2
Miscellaneous
100
This type of rock is formed from lava.
What is an igneous rock?
100
A trace of remains (imprint of an animal) in Earths crust.
What is a fossil?
100
This law simply says that the older layers of earth tend to be found at the bottom of the strata and the younger ones are on top.
What is the Law of Superposition?
100
Another word for super continent.
What is Pangaea?
100
This occurs when the vibration of 1 object makes a second object to vibrate.
What is resonance?
200
These are the three types of rocks.
What are Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous rocks?
200
This is a fossil that characterizes a particular period of time.
What is an Index Fossil?
200
Units of Earth's history (from largest to smallest)
Eon, Era, Period, Epoch
200
What is the word for the act of determining if 2 locations had similar climates and environments using index fossils.
What is correlation?
200
These are the 2 main kinds of waves. Tell which needs a medium.
Mechanical (medium) and Electromagnetic
300
These rocks that formed due to the application of heat and pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rock?
300
This type of rocks are most likely to contain fossils.
What are Sedimentary rocks?
300
This is the current era in Earth's history.
What is the Cenezoic era?
300
Possible causes of mass extinctions.
Volcanoes, Climate Change, Ice Ages, Meteorite
300
The series of glacial episodes during the Pleistocene period is this.
What is an Ice Age?
400
This is the type of rock obsidian is.
What is igneous?
400
This 550 million year old fossil is.
What is a Trilobite?
400
Fossil that lived for a short amount of time in a variety of different locations
What is an index fossil?
400
Identify the parts of the wave shown above.
a. crest
b. trough
c. amplitude
d. wavelength
400
List at least 4 wave interactions.
Reflection, Refraction, Interaction, Diffraction, Absorption, Transmission, Reveration
500
There are this many processes in the rock cycle?
What is 5?
500
This dating process is how we know exactly how old fossils are.
What is Radiometric Dating?
500
This type of dating gives only an estimated age of the rock strata.
What is relative dating?
500
This is the number of mass extinctions that have occurred so far in Earth's history.
What is 5?
500
These are the extinction statistics for the Permian Mass Extinction.
What is 95% loss of marine life and 70% loss of land life?