Professors
Rocks
Minerals
Structures
Sedimentary
100
Who is the tallest professor?
Dr. Peck
100
What are the three types of rocks?
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, Igneous
100
What is this mineral?
Quartz
100
What is a mountain?
An elevated portion of Earth's crust usually with steep sides
100
What is the most common mineral found in Sedimentary rocks?
Quartz, or Feldspar
200
How many professors are in the department?
10
200
DAILY DOUBLE These make up earth's lithosphere BUT can range to be various sizes, even a grain of sand
Rocks
200
What mineral sometimes forms what is called dogtooth?
Calcite
200
What are the three types of boundaries?
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
200
What are preserved remains found in sedimentary layers called?
Fossils
300
Which professor has the most memes made of them?
Dr. Peck
300
What is this rock?
Obsidian
300
What cleavage or fracture does quartz have?
conchoidal
300
What type of boundary is typically found on a spreading ocean floor?
Divergent boundary
300
What is an index fossil?
A fossil used to indicate the age of a sedimentary layer.
400
Which professor is the most sassy?
Dr. Holyoke
400
What is the scale used to tell the hardness of rocks and minerals?
Mohs Hardness Scale
400
DAILY DOUBLE When looking at Quartz under a petrographic microscope what type of extinction does it show?
undulatory
400
What causes Earths plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle.
400
What is carbon dating?
A type of radiometric dating used to give an age estimate.
500
Which professor has a cardboard cutout of themselves in their office?
Dr. Sasowsky
500
What rock is made from heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
500
Which of the following is not a mineral? Magnetite, Ice or Arenite.
Arenite.
500
What are the three types of unconformities?
Disconformities, Nonconformities, Angular Unconformities
500
What is the oldest dated mineral found in sedimentary rocks?
Zircon