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Extraordinary Ecosystems
Rock Out
Erosion and Deposition Delirium
Plate Tectonics Time
Earthquake and Volcano Madness
100
This is an organism that gets its energy from eating both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
100
This is the type of acid that weathers rock, formed when CO2 mixes with rainwater.
What is carbonic acid?
100
These are the 4 types of mass movement (erosion by gravity).
What are landslides, mudflows, slump and creep?
100
These are the five layers of earth, from the inside out.
What are the inner core, outer core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, lithosphere?
100
This is the name of the rating scale that is currently used to assign magnitude to an earthquake.
What is the Moment Magnitude scale?
200
This is the term used to describe the largest a population can become before resources limit its growth.
What is carrying capacity?
200
This is how shale could become obsidian.
What is it could melt into lava and cool and harden into obsidian?
200
When a fast flowing stream leaves a mountain valley and suddenly slows and deposits sediments at the mountain's base, it creates this landform.
What is an alluvial fan?
200
This is the year that Alfred Wegener published his book on Continental Drift.
What is 1912?
200
These are the names of the two active California volcanoes.
What are Lassen Peak and Mt. Shasta?
300
These are the three energy roles organisms can play in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
300
This is the decayed organic material that mixes with weathered rock, water and air to form soil.
What is humus?
300
This is the process by which wind picks up surface materials.
What is deflation?
300
This is the device that was first used to map Earth's mid-ocean ridges and deep-ocean trenches.
What is sonar?
300
These are the four causes of damage by earthquakes.
What are shaking, liquefaction, tsunamis and aftershocks?
400
These are the three types of symbiosis.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
400
This is how marble should become sandstone.
What is it could weather and erode into sediments, and then compact and cement into sandstone?
400
This is how thick a glacier needs to be before gravity can begin to pull it downhill.
What is 30-40 meters?
400
These are the three plate boundary types (both names for each).
What are spreading (divergent), colliding (convergent), and sliding (transform)?
400
These are three examples of island arcs.
What are the Philippines, the Caribbean, Japan, New Zealand, the Aleutian Islands, Indonesia, etc.?
500
This is an organism's specific role in its ecosystem.
What is its niche?
500
These are the five types of mechanical weathering.
What are animal actions, release of pressure, freezing and thawing, plant growth, and abrasion?
500
This is the process where the ocean's currents bring sediment down a beach.
What is longshore drift?
500
These are the plates located at letters I, M, F and D
What are the Cocos, Scotia, Arabian and Philippine plates?
500
These are the three types of stress, and the types of faults they lead to.
What are tension (normal fault), compression (reverse fault), and shearing (strike-slip fault)?