EARTH SCIENCE

Holiday Trivia

100

What holiday is celebrated on the 25th of December?

Christmas 

200

What holiday is celebrated on the 31st of December 

New years 

300

Who or what pulls Santas sleigh?

reindeer

400

What holiday falls in Feburary?

Valentines 

500

Who stole christmas?

The grinch

ROCKY ROCKS

100

This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.

What is sediment?

200

The movement of sediment.

What is erosion?

300

The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.

What is lithification?

400

Metamorphic rocks can be found where?

subduction or mountains

500

This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?

What is coal?

Memory Shot

100

The are the remains of dead plants and animals

Fossils

200

The main who coined the term continental drift

Alfred Wegner 

300

Some evidence that supported the idea that the continents used to be stuck together are?

Fossils of plants and animals , mountain formations, glacial grooves, continents are like a puzzle piece 

400

What rock has large crystals 

intrusive igneous 

500

Name the 4 spheres and explain them

biosphere-life

atmosphere-aire

geosphere-rocks and minerals

hydropshere-water

Do you remember?

100

What is the hottest layer of the earth?

Inner core

200

Name the 3 fossil fuels 

coal, oil and natural gas

300

These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.

What is any type of rock?

400

What sphere of earth holds all the air?

Atmosphere 

500

What is density?

How solid something is. 

Vocabulary

100

This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."

What is Igneous?

200

What does compaction mean?

squished

300

The third layer of soil?

parent material

400

Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500

This type of volcano breaks out in the middle of a plate when there is a weakness in the crust. 

Hotspot.