Rock Cycle
Rocks made by cooling magma or lava.
What are igneous rocks?
The spatial scale of the uplift of the Himalayas due to continental collision.
What is large?
A design solution for building houses in flood zones.
What is building a house on stilts? (Also would accept building levees or seawalls.)
It is the age of the earth.
What is 4.6 billion years? (4.5 is also acceptable)
256 of these hockey puck shaped discs were placed under the Utah State Capital building.
What are base isolators?
Rocks formed by smaller pieces sticking together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
The spatial scale of landslide.
What is small?
A tuned mass damper was placed inside the top of Tapei 101 to protect the structure from this geologic hazard.
What is high winds? (I would also accept earthquake)
What is superposition?
What do you call the 728 ton giant ball hanging in the upper floors of the Taipei 101?
What is a tuned mass damper?
Rocks made by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
The time scale of continental drift.
What is slow/long time?
A limit on what you can or can't do, especially when applied to engineering.
What is a constraint?
The name for the way sedimentary rocks can be read (like a book) to read Earth's history.
What is the geologic record? (Fossil record is acceptable too)
This building design feature is the reason the Burj Khalifa doesn't need a tuned mass damper?
What is building shape?
The theory that natural laws as they exist today are the same as they were in the past.
What is uniformitarianism?
The time scale of a volcanic eruption.
What is fast/short time?
This caused the flooding on State Street in Salt Lake City in 1983.
What is a rapid spring runoff from warm temperatures and record snowpack?
When a younger layer is found across older layers.
What is crosscutting?
This is the most accurate way to measure the absolute age of rocks.
What is radiometric dating?
When layers of rock are missing or out of place.
What is an unconformity?
These two fast geologic hazards led to the destruction of the town of Thistle, Utah.
What are a landslide and flood?
These are design solutions for flooding. (Name 3)
What are levees, dykes, retention ponds, drainage systems, etc.?
When older materials are found in younger rock layers.
What are inclusions?
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?