Mineralogy
The Chemical Formula of Quartz
This fossil, discovered in Devonian-aged deposits in Northern Canada, famously represents the evolutionary transition between aquatic and terrestrial life for tetrapods
What is Tiktaalik?
Michigan's Great Lakes are a result of these
What are glaciers?
When was the K-T extinction?
What is 66 million years ago?
When a Limestone is metamorphosed, it turns into this rock
What is a Marble?
This Mineral is often used in Radioactive Dating
What is Zircon?
A fine-grained sedimentary deposit that is known to preserve fossils in extremely fine detail
What is a lagerstatte?
Michigan's State Fossil
What is a Mastodon?
The Earth is this old
What is 4.54 Billion Years old?
Hawaii is this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano?
Diopside's Silicate Subclass
What is Chain Silicate/Inosilicate?
This fossil bed from Canada is the most famous source of Cambrian fossils, including soft-bodied fossils
What is the Burgess Shale?
Michigan has coal deposits at this locality
What is Grand Ledge?
Trilobites are an index fossil for this Era
What is the Paleozoic?
Give a Current Example of a Divergent Plate Boundary
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise, East African Rift, etc.?
Name the three aluminosilicate polymorphs (Al2SiO5)
What is Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite?
A clade of avian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous that retained their teeth and wing claws while also being able to fly
What is Enantiornithes?
Banded Iron formations are composed of these minerals
What are Hematite and Magnetite? (also accepting chert)
List 4 Supercontinents
What are Pangaea, Rodinia, Nuna, Gondwana, Ur, Laurasia, and Pannotia?
Symmetrical ripple marks indicate this type of depositional environment
What is a beach?
The Crystal System of Aragonite
What is Orthorhombic
Sinosauropteryx prima is the first dinosaur taxon outside the clade avialae to be discovered with...
What are feathers?
Michigan's Native Copper is found in this formation
What is the Nonesuch Shale formation? (will also accept Portage Lake Volcanics)
Name in Order from Oldest to Youngest: the Cenozoic Epochs
What is Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene?
Why is Greenland's ice sheet melting so much faster than the Antarctic ice sheet?
What is the Gulf Stream Current?