Professor Lore
This SRU professor has a master's in English
Who is Dr. Livingston
This measures the amount of energy released during an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale
Primary gas released into the atmosphere from industrial and automotive emissions responsible for global warming
What is CO2
On FI 2025 with Dr. B, we were gifted this sacred stone used for prayer or ceremony, which is typically illegal to take otherwise.
What is Pipestone
This plant, found around campus, is a highly invasive perennial plant known for its rapid growth, bamboo-like stems, and persistent underground rhizomes that make it difficult to control.
What is Japanese Knotweed
This SRU professor has earned his Rabbit Raising merit badge in Boy Scouts
Who is Dr. Danielson
This geological period is known as the "Age of the Fishes"
What is the Devonian
Non-renewable resources derived from dead organic material (i.e. plants and dinosaurs) that has been compressed over thousands of years and extracted for energy consumption.
What are fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal)
On FI 2025, this professor got pulled over and was issued a speeding ticket.
Who is Dr. Daria
This was the 1st National Park "created"
What is Yellowstone
This SRU professor has been struck by lightning twice
Who is Dr. Burkhart
This mountain forming event characterized by shallow subduction created a famous mountain range in the West of North America.
What is the Laramide Orogeny
Organic compound responsible for ozone depletion commonly used in refrigerants, aerosols, and solvents that has been restricted under the Montreal Protocol
What is Chloroflurocarbons (CFCs)
On FI 2024, what did Peyton eat for lunch when we were running out of food on our last day.
What is a peanut butter and jelly hotdog.
This is the only continent with no active volcanoes
What is Australia
This SRU professor has two spleens
Who is Dr. Hartmann
This mineral is most abundant in Earth's crust
What is Feldspar
In the last quarter of 2025, this country got more than 50% of its energy from renewables and storage for the first time ever
What is Australia
On FI 2024. this was the name of the sleep paralysis demon that Leah drew that haunted the entire group.
McFreaky
What is: A New Hope and Return of the Jedi
This SRU professor is an ordained minister
Who is Dr. Burkhart
This is the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.
What is Uniformitarianism
Federal law passed in 1972 that placed limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals that can be discharged into a body of water. Provisions to this act include the Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the establishment of a superfund, or CERCLA.
What is the Clean Water Act
On FI 2024, these two students missed their flight to Utah.
Who are Marina and Sami
This is the largest organism on Earth (BONUS: 100 points if you know the exact size)
What is the Humongous Fungus in Oregon (2,385 acres or 9.65 km2)