Volcanoes
Rocks
Glaciers
Oceans and Rivers
Natural Disasters
100
This geological formation is known to erupt molten hot magma.
What is a volcano?
100
These are found on the ground, and can be classified into three different categories
What is a rock?
100
this is a cold glacial period in the history of the earth
What is an Ice Age?
100
This ocean separates North America and Europe
What is the Atlantic?
100
These are commonly caused when a major earthquake occurs in an ocean
What is a tsunami?
200
This is the bowl-shaped pit found at the summit of a volcano
What is the crater?
200
Statues are commonly made of this rock
What is marble?
200
This is the shape of the valley as the glacier flows down from its cirque
What is U-shaped?
200
This is the ratio of saltwater to freshwater on the earth
What is 70% to 30%
200
This disaster occurs when there is downhill movement of mud, rock and soil.
What is a land slide?
300
These are the two kinds of volcanoes
What are shield and stato (or composite)?
300
These are the building blocks of rocks
What is a mineral?
300
This is the amount added to a glacier annually
What is accumulation?
300
This is a place which stores water
What is a reservoir?
300
This is the way hurricanes rotate in the northern hemisphere
What is counter-clockwise?
400
These are classified as explosive or non explosive
What is a Magmatic Eruption?
400
These are the three types of rocks
What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?
400
Al Gore made a movie about this subject involving the disappearance of glaciers
What is global warming?
400
This is the type of flat area which is most likely to be flooded
What is a floodplain?
400
this is the instrument used to measure seismic activity
What is a seismometer?
500
These are the three types of lava
What are basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic?
500
Mass per unit volume is also known as this
What is Density?
500
Drift is deposited directly by melting ice, this unstratified and poorly sorted sediment is known as this.
What is Till?
500
These are the two regimes of fluid flow.
What are Laminar and Turbulent?
500
This is the most common type of fault.
What is a Strike-Slip fault (transcurrent fault)?
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