Rocks & Minerals
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Space Race
Random Science
100
What mineral structure is made of tiny sea animals?
What are coral reefs?
100
The point on earth's surface above the focus.
What is the epicenter.
100
A weak spot in the crust where magma explodes to the surface.
What is a volcano?
100
The event between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the Space Race.
100
It consists of lots of overlapping food chains.
What is the food web?
200
The minerals that make up granite.
What are mica, feldespar, quartz, and hornblende?
200
The most powerful kind of wave measured by the seismogram.
What are surface waves?
200
One major volcanic belt that goes around the pacific rim.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Name of the space craft that carried the first living creature into space.
What is Sputnik II?
200
A term that means you understand basic scientific terms.
What is scientific literacy?
300
The only conditions coral animals can live in.
What are shallow and warm waters?
300
Creepmeters, tiltmeters, laser-ranging devices, and GPS satellites are used for what purpose?
What are fault monitoring instruments?
300
A string of islands that are made up of volcanoes.
What is an island arc?
300
The spacecraft that carried John Glenn into space.
What is Friendship Space 7?
300
Management of soil to prevent it's destruction.
What is soil conservation?
400
Erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation.
What is process for making sedimentary rock?
400
The scale that measures the total energy released by an earthquake.
What is the moment magnitude scale?
400
A kind of volcanic eruption that has a low silica content.
What is an explosive eruption?
400
The first man in space.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
400
Tundra soil that stays frozen all year.
What is permafrost?
500
What is used to make cement and steel?
What is limestone?
500
2000 years ago he invented the device used to detect an earthquake.
Who is Zhang Heng?
500
The volcano in the Phillipines that explodes in 1991, causing many nearby areas to be buried by ash.
What is Mount Pinatubo?
500
Neil Armstrong's companion on the moon.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
500
The result of a product.
What is the output?
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