Geological Timeline
How old scientists currently believe the Earth is.
What is 4.5-4.6 billion years old?
Sedementary, metamorphic and ________ are the three types of rocks.
What is igneous?
Name 2 types of fuel made from oil. Points are all or nothing.
gas, diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, heating oil,
What have been Alaska's two most profitable natural resources? Points are all or nothing.
What is gold and oil?
Which country has more land mass? Australia or Greenland?
What is Australia?
This significant event happened about 65 million years ago.
What is the extinction of the dinosaurs?
If a piece of stone meets ______ characteristics, it is a mineral.
What is five?
Name 3 renewable energy sources. Points are all or nothing.
Solar, wind, tidal, hydro, geothermal.
A natural resource that can be used up and created anew within a human lifetime.
What is a renewable natural resource?
Manchuria and Korea are part of this continent.
What is Asia?
Name for a single-celled organism.
What is a eukaryote?
These rocks are made up of pieces of many things pressed together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Name two reasons the world doesn't use all renewable energy. Points are all or nothing.
Reasons may include: We don't have the infrastructure. It would cost a lot to build the infrastructure. It's not as profitable. It doesn't yield as much energy. Only certain types of renewable energy are close to certain areas.
Name one type of organic natural resources that are renewable. Points are all or nothing.
Paul Revere is famous for this in the American Revolution.
Name for a multi-cellular organism.
What is a prokaryote?
Although it has a distinct structure, honeycomb cannot be a mineral because __________
What is, it is organic?
Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas are all non-renewable resources called __________.
What are fossil fuels?
These types of rocks are natural resources and often used in making tools for renewable energy.
What are minerals?
The first man to sign his name on the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Hancock?
This significant event happened about 220 million years ago.
These rocks are formed by being melted deep in the Earth.
What are igneous rocks?
The mud volcanoes in Glenn Allen are actually caused by this non-renewable resource seeping to the surface.
What is natural gas?
List two reasons why how many barrels of oil a country has in reserve is important. Points are all or nothing.
Answers may include - the more barrels of oil a country has in reserve the more money they in reserve. And the more barrels of oil a country has in reserve means the longer the country can still function if their oil supply is cut off.
Brass is made of these two minerals.
What is zinc and copper?