VT & NH
The primary type of rock found in Vermont
What is metamorphic?
A rock that was formed inside of a volcano
Granite, geode
The innermost layer of Earth made of solid Iron and Nickel.
What is the inner core?
The Period during which Pangea formed.
What is the Permian?
The ERA during which the dinosaurs lived.
What is the Mesozoic?
The white mineral that is embedded in the folded matrix rocks at the Saxtons River Falls (and in many of Vermont's bedrock outcrops).
What is calcite?
Two properties that differentiate a mineral from a rock.
A crystalline lattice and a definite chemical composition.
The thick, mostly solid but semi-plastic layer beneath the crust where hotter rocks rise and cooler rocks sink.
What is the mantle?
This is what happens when magma from the mantle explodes or oozes to the surface of the Earth.
What is a volcano?
The Period during which Earth was characterized by swamp-like ecosystems which have given us (for better or worse) the energy resource known as "fossil fuels."
What is the Carboniferous?
The name and type of rock that represent much of New Hampshire's geology. (full points require both parts of the answer)
What is granite/igneous?
A mineral with cleavage on a single plane (and the name of it)
Mica
The lightest/lease dense part of the crust.
What are the continents (or continental crust)?
A place on Earth where two continental plates are colliding.
What are the Himalayas or the Alps?
The Period that began 66 million years ago and the event that catalyzed it.
What is the Paleogene and the asteroid impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammals.
The Precambrian collision and subsequent mountain building event that resulted in the accretion of Vermont (and parts of other states in New England) to the North American continent.
What is the Grenville Orogeny?
Name the type and find a sample of a rock containing fossils.
What is sedimentary--and choose a rock with obvious fossil structure.
How the layers of Earth and Moon are different.
The moon does not have active plate-tectonic activity (driven by the molten iron rich outer core).
These "currents" drive movement of magma inside of the mantle which in turn drives the movement of the crustal plates.
Convection currents
The Period also knows as "The Age of the Trilobites"
What is the Cambrian?
The two forces that have shaped the surface of New England the most. (both are required for full points)
The reason that some minerals have beautiful colors.
What is the addition of trace amounts of transition metals?
The "plasticy" layer between the mantle and the crust
What is the asthenosphere?
The "zone" where one tectonic plate slides under another plate.
Subduction Zone (or other answer at the discretion of the teacher).
The Eon during which Earth was a water world with no continents.
What is the Archean?