Geologic Eras
ROCKS Rock!
Disastrous, Naturally
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
This is the name given to the Era that covers the creation of the earth.
What is the Precambrian Era.
100
What is the most brittle type of rock?
What is Sedimentary rock.
100
These 3 natural disasters are caused by plate movement.
What are Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes.
100
This outer layer of the planet is NOT a single peice, but rather many plates.
What is the crust?
100
What is the name for the movement of the continental plates over the surface of the planet?
What is Continental Drift?
200
This is the era known as the "Age of Mammals"
What is the Cenozoic Era.
200
Rock caused by the cooling of Magma.
What is Igneous Rock.
200
Divergent plate movement causes this type of volcano.
What is a rift volcano?
200
This substance moves in the mantle crust to cause the plates to move.
What is Magma?
200
How subduction volcanoes are formed.
What is when the plates subduct, melt, and release gas, which causes pressure beneath the crust which errupts.
300
This is age of DINOSAURS!
What is the Mesozoic Era!
300
Where (location) heat and pressure is applied to sedimentary rock to create Metamorphic Rock.
What is the Crust.
300
These 2 type of plate movement causes earthquakes.
What are convergent and transform plate boundaries?
300
Name of the SUPER CONTINENT. The last time the continents were all together.
What is Pangea.
300
The term for the movement of sediments from one area to another.
What is deposition.
400
This era began and ended in an ice age.
What is the Paleozoic Era.
400
How Sediments become Sedimentary rock.
What is Compaction and Cementation?
400
This type of plate movement causes a tsunami.
What is Transform Plate movement?
400
The name for when one convergent plate goes beneath the other.
What is subduction?
400
This is what the INNER core is made of.
What is Solid Iron?
500
This is the era of seeded plants!
What is the Paleozoic Era.
500
These are the types of weathering.
What is Freeze/Thaw, Exfoliation, Biotic.
500
This is how a hot spot volcano is formed.
What is pressure beneath the crust builds up and errupts through the crust.
500
The speed at which the plates move.
What is the speed of nails growing.
500
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