Rocks and Minerals
This is the name for molten rock under the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
This area around the Pacific Ocean has a high concentration of earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The scientific name for this is cumulonimbus.
What is a thundercloud?
This person is getting married this weekend.
Who is Brenda?
This song by Johnny Cash (rip) is also a term for a high concentration of volcanoes around the Pacific.
What is Ring of Fire?
This mineral has a hardness of one on Moh's Hardness Scale.
What is talc?
This city was destroyed by Mt Vesuvius.
What is Pompeii?
This major hurricane just hit the Bahamas.
What is Hurricane Dorian?
This was the city where GSA 2018 was held.
What is Burlington, Vermont?
This cereal uses this statement as its slogan.
Follow your nose for the fruity taste that shows!
What is Froot loops?
These are the two types of lava.
What are aa and pahoehoe?
This fault is caused by shear stress.
Which is a shear/strike slip fault?
This glacier spanned northern North America during the last ice age.
What is the Laurentide Ice Sheet?
This person is our faculty adviser.
Who is Michael Hren?
This man discovered the wreck of the Titanic.
Who is Dr. Robert Ballard?
Limestone bedrock is responsible for this type of topography.
What is Karst topography?
Some examples of this type of volcano include Mount Fuji and Mount Pelee.
What is a stratovolcano/composite?
This type of desert is caused by the orographic effect.
What is a rainshadow desert?
This mineral is durable and sexy.
What is garnet?
This percentage of the animal kingdom is ants.
What is 20%?
This mineral's chemical formula is (Ca,Na)2(Mg,Fe,Al)5(Al,Si)8O22 (OH)2
What is hornblende?
This is defined as 'the angle between a line and the strike line of the plane in which it is found.'
What is a rake?
This air mass causes moist air to rise at the equator and fall dry at the mid latitudes, causing mid-latitude deserts.
What is a Hadley cell?
This soccer team is the secretary's favorite.
What is AFC Wimbledon?
This is the most common eye color in cats.
What is Gold/Yellow?