Weathering
Minerals
Rocks
Lithosphere
Fossils
Geologic Record
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Weather
Solar System
100
Which lines tell you how close you are to the equator?
Latitude
100
What does it mean if a mineral is "opaque"?
You cannot see through it.
100
Which type of rock requires both heat and pressure to form?
Metamorphic
100
What is layer F?
Inner Core
100
Fossilized animal feces.
Coprolite
100
What would you call a uniformitarian who thinks life arose and became what we see today solely as a result of natural process over billions of years?
An atheist.
100
Which phase of water has the highest density?
Liquid
100
Is a pH of 9 alkaline or acidic?
Alkaline
100
The day at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum height in the sky.
Solstice
100
Name the four inner planents.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
200
Which soil horizon contains the most organic matter?
O Horizon
200
Which of the minerals below have cleavage?
Mineral C
200
What type of rock is most likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary
200
What forms a straight line of volcanoes like the Hawaiian Islands?
A hot spot, which is an area of intense heat in the mantle.
200
What are the two parts of a compression fossil?
Slab and Counter-slab
-or-
Part and Counterpart
200
Who uses the catastrophist interpretation of the geologic column?
A Young-Earth Creationist.
200
The movement of molecules from a region of high concentration to one of low concentration.
Diffusion
200
The force applied to an object divided by the area of which it is applied.
Pressure
200
A measure of how much light is reflected from the surface instead of being absorbed.
Albedo
200
Name of the process that powers the sun turning hydrogen into helium.
Nuclear Fusion
300
Why does water inside a rock damage the rock when it freezes?
Water expands when it freezes!
300
What is the best way to distinguish between a mineral and a rock?
Rocks are mixtures of chemicals, while minerals are mostly composed of just one chemical.
300
Which type of rock would be a clastic sedimentary rock?
A sedimentary rock made of chemicals altered by water.
A sedimentary rock made of chemicals that have precipitated out of water.
A sedimentary rock made of carbon particles from the decayed remains of organisms.
A sedimentary rock made of sediments that came from weathering and erosion.
A sedimentary rock made of sediments that came from weathering and erosion.
300
Name the wave in which the vibration of the medium is parallel to the direction the wave travels.
Longitudinal wave
300
Name two conditions will slow decomposition.
Cold temperatures
Low moisture
Lack of oxygen
300
You are watching a sample of radioactive isotopes. You initially have 600 atoms, and after 6 hours, you have 150. What is the half-life of the radioactive isotope?
3 hours
300
If you are at a beach that is experiencing low tide, about how long do you have to wait before you see it experience high tide?
6 hours
300
The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up creating shooting star.
Mesosphere
300
The point in a body's orbit when it is closest to the sun.
Perihelion
300
The layer of the sun's atmosphere that has a reddish glow.
Chromosphere
400
Order the following particles from smallest to largest: clay, silt, sand.
Clay --> Silt --> Sand
400
A mineral cannot scratch a glass plate, and it cannot be scratched by an iron nail. Which of the minerals used to define the Mohs hardness scale is it?
Orthoclase
400
Which of the four types of coal produces the most pollution when it is burned?
Anthracite
Bituminous
Sub-Bituminous
Lignite
Lignite coal
It has the lowest carbon content (25-35%).
400
What type of fault is shown below.
Strike-slip Fault
400
What types of fossils can be used to temporally correlate strata of sedimentary rock?
Index Fossil
400
For which view (uniformitarian or YEC catastrophist) is the Cambrian Explosion a problem?
Uniformitarian
400
What holds the garbage in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
A gyre.
400
Weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere.
Troposphere
400
A rotating air mass at the center of a supercell.
Mesocyclone
400
The apparent change in an object's position based on the angle and distance with which the observer views the object.
Parallax
500
The following equation describes how a mineral called olivine can be weathered:
2Mg2SiO4 + CO2 + 2H2O → MgCO3 + Mg3Si2O9H4
Is this chemical or physical weathering?
Chemical weathering.
500
You measure the mass of a ruby to be 0.75 grams. How many carats is that?
Remember: 1 carat = 0.2 gram
3.75 carats
500
What must be between two strata of rock?
a bedding plane
500
Identify the P-waves in the seismograph below.
P-waves labeled as "A".
500
Name one of the major mistakes that paleontologists made when interpreting fossils.
Nebraska Man / Pakicetus / Coelacanth
500
What do we call the study of the geographical distribution of animals on this planet.
Biogeography
500
The deflection of the path of any object that changes latitude over a long distance and is not firmly attached to the earth.
Coriolis Effect
500
This atmospheric layer protects the earth from harmful UV ray from the Sun.
Ozone layer
500
What is the name of the process that causes ice crystals to grow in clouds?
Bergeron process
500
The apparent magnitude of a star if it is viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs.
Absolute magnitude
