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This igneous rock is made up of quartz, feldspar, and hornblende.
What is granite?
Fossils are only found in this type of rock.
What is Sedimentary?
This is the late Paleozoic supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which we live.
What is the troposphere?
The basic building block of matter. It's the smallest particle that exists as an element. (4)
What is atom?
This is the name of the property that measures the resistance of a mineral to abrasion.
What is hardness?
What percent of the parent isotope remains after 3 half-lives?
The Hawaiian Islands are the result of this type of volcanism or tectonic activity.
What are hotspots?
This molecule breaks down O3.
What are CFCs?
The study of the Universe (9)
What is Astronomy?
This mineral reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid to produce visible bubbles of carbon dioxide.
What is calcite?
This mass extinction is also known as “The Great Dying”
What is the Permian Extinction?
This is the order of arrival for the three type of seismic waves.
What are P, S, and Surface Waves?
This is the part of the continental margin that slightly slopes down from the shoreline.
What is the continental shelf?
Igneous Rock that is Fine-grained and Intermediate in color; also found in South America (8)
What is Andesite?
Silicates are made up of the Silicon-Oxygen tetrahedron, which has this many Silicon and this many Oxygen atoms.
This law of relative dating states that the layer below is older than the layer above.
What is superposition?
This type of volcano is small, steep, and made up of small pieces of volcanic rock.
What are Cinder Cone Volcanoes?
This is the most potent or strongest greenhouse gas.
What is water vapor?
The weak flowing upper-region of the mantle (13)
What is Asthenosphere?
This mineral is Wisconsin’s state mineral. It is also the ore of lead.
What is Galena?
Alpha decay will decrease the atomic mass by this many.
What is 4?
The Richter magnitude of a earthquake is determined from this.
What is the amplitude of the largest waves on the seismogram?
This is the temperature at which a parcel of air will reach saturation.
What is dew point?
The extremely deep and flat region of the deep-ocean basin. (12) (two words)
What is Abyssal Plain?