Name that Geology
A river that flows down the same path for years and years will likely create...
What is a canyon/ravine/valley?
About how old is the Earth?
What is 4.5 Billion years?
Name the greenhouse gas created by Baking Soda + Vinegar and also ejected from Volcanoes?
What is Carbon Dioxide/CO2?
What are the big pieces of crust moving around the Earth that cause continental drift and Earthquakes?
What are plate tectonics?
What thick magma and rock layer of the Earth is underneath the crust and above the core?
What is the mantle?
Volcanoes erupt over and over again, forming new land, which, if in the ocean, will create...
What are islands?
When did the Earth first become covered in an ocean?
What is 3.7-3.9 billion years ago?
Ash being released into the atmosphere from huge eruptions can cause the sun to be blocked out partially. This does what to the global temperature?
What is decrease?
Name the two major types of tectonic plates.
What are oceanic and continental plates?
The outermost layer of the Earth we are standing on is known as the...
What is the Crust?
A convergent continental-to-continental plate boundary mainly forms what type of geology?
What is a mountain range?
What is the name of planet that slammed into the Earth, forming the moon?
What is Theia?
What is the name of the effect of certain gases "trapping" heat, warming the planet?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is the name of the most recent supercontinent?
What is Pangea?
The innermost iron center of the Earth is known as what?
What is the inner core?
The divergent boundary splitting Africa and South America forms the Mid-Atlantic _______.
What is Ridge?
How long ago did the first microscopic life start to form on Earth?
What is 3.4-3.7 billion years ago?
What is an ice age?
This transform fault boundary in California has resulted in many devastating earthquakes...
What is the San Andreas fault?
About what percentage of the Earth's surface is covered in oceans?
What is about 70%?
This mountain range running along Chile is formed from an oceanic plate subducting under a continental plate...
What are the Andes Mountains?
About how long ago were the dinosaurs made extinct, likely by an asteroid?
What is 65 million years ago?
When rain is formed by moist air running up a mountain, what is the name of the other side of the mountain that is dry?
What is the Rain Shadow?
What two plates are responsible for the creation of the vast Himalayan mountains?
What are the Indian and Eurasian plates?
Name one of the thin, sticky layers of the mantle that the plate tectonics drift on top of.
What are Lithosphere and/or Asthenosphere?