Historical Puzzles
This is what past astronomers considered the center of the universe
What is the Earth
Bowen's reaction series is very scary and very halloween (just go with it). This ultramafic mineral is the first to crystalize at high temperatures.
A twisting mass of air and aquatic creatures
What is a sharknado
This low pressure system sometimes produces hail and lightning
Cumulonimbus/thunderstorm
Serpents are sometimes evil. Serpentinite is definitely evil. It makes up this layer of the earth.
What is the mantle
The name of Alfred Wegener's original theory and what is now known as plate tectonics
A ghost costume can be made by putting a sheet over your head. Speaking of sheets, this silicate mineral type includes silica tetrahedra stacked in sheets.
What is a phylosillicate
A fast moving heated gas and rock fragments coming toward you
What is a pyroclastic flow
Villains are cold-hearted. This global climate pattern typically makes the Earth slightly cooler.
What is la Nina
You're the wicked witch and you're MELTING! Except you're melting because you're at a divergent boundary and the pressure has decreased.
What is decompression melting
When astronomers looked at this planet they saw canals and assumed a well-developed alien society
What is Mars
This mineral is named because it has a streak that looks like BLOOD
What is hematite
A hole in the ground formed from a chunk of ice that has fallen off and melted. This hole may also be filled with water
An earthquake may occur at a fault. An evil villain might strike you. In a strike slip fault, this fault block moves up.
What is trick! Neither. The blocks move latterally
This supercontinent existed a billion years ago
What is Rodinia
A large period of time from which no rocks exist
What is the Great Unconformity
The number of end members that garnet has
What is 6
A peninsula sticking into the middle of a meandering river
What is a point bar
This giant earthquake occurs at the interface of tectonic plates
What is the megathrust
Oh no! you're frozen with fear! More specifically you are stuck on this point on a temperature-composition graph with three phases and where you are invarient.
What is the eutektic point
The age of the oldest evidence of life
What is 3.5 billion years
This mineral is also a TV service (Hint: it's not a Halloween/scary TV)
What is PbS (Galena)
A volcanic structure known to frequently contain diamonds
What is a kimberlite pipe
This type of seismic wave are fast-travelling and compressional
What is a p wave
Rattle rattle rattle
What is rattlesnake