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This area is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, and is used for racing, among other things.
What is the Bonneville Salt Flats?
100
This is the wearing away of land, landforms, etc.
What is erosion?
100
This person studies the history of the earth by looking at rocks, land formations, etc.
What is a geologist?
100
Kennecott Mine is devoted to finding what important Utah Mineral?
What is Copper?
100
This is a classification of stone made by small layers of dirt, stone, etc. that are compressed together
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Little Sahara desert is here because of what?
What is Lake Bonneville
200
This is a crack in the earth's crust, where earthquakes often occur
What is a fault?
200
Most people in Utah live along this fault line, where a major earthquake will eventually happen one day
What is the Wasatch Fault?
200
What is the name of a newer dinosaur discovered in Utah?
What is the Utah Raptor? EC: Utah State Fossil?
200
This mammal was found high up in the Manti-La Sal mountains nearby Fairview, UT
What is the Huntington Mammoth?
300
Daily DOuble: This Public Land area is found near the border of Utah and Colorado, and is where one can find lots of fossils
What is Dinosaur NM?
300
This is the period of time when mammals took over the world
What is the Cenozoic Era?
300
If you wanted to find the state gem, what would you look for?
What is Topaz?
300
This period of time is when Dinos ruled the earth
What is the Mesozoic Era?
300
Salt Lake is a remnant of what?
What is Lake Bonneville?
400
This is the name of the place where much of Lake Bonneville washed out of Utah, towards the Pacific Ocean
What is Red Rock Pass?
400
This is the longest period of time in Earth's geologic history
What is the Precambrian Era?
400
Who was the scientist hired by the Carnegie Museum to study dinosaur bones in Utah in the early 1900s?
Who is Earl Douglass?
400
Fossil fuels formed during these two periods of time
What is the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras?
400
Name 2 of the giant mammals that are shown in the "Ice Age" films that we would have seen in ancient Utah?
What is Sid the sloth, Manny the Mammoth, Diego the Saber-toothed tiger / cat, etc.
500
Name at least 3 different Dinosaur Quarries in Utah
What is Dinosaur Nat'l Monument, Mill Canyon, Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, St. George Dinosaur Discovery site.
500
Name at least three different minerals that are important specifically to Utah
What is Coal, salt, copper, topaz, red beryl, etc.
500
Final Jeopardy!
Name as many large mammals that lived with humans during the last Ice Age?
500
This period lasted 570-240 MYA, and the name means "Ancient Life"
What is Paleozoic Era?
500
This is a place that one can see the oldest known rocks in Utah:
What is Antelope Island? EC: What era are these rocks from?
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