Studies of Science
The study of the Earth and the Universe around it.
What is Earth Science?
60 foot toothed whale from the Paleogene.
What is a Basilosaurus?
What is deformation?
A vibration of the Earth's crust because of tectonic activity.
What is an Earthquake?
An inorganic, crystalline, solid.
What is a mineral?
The study of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Meteorology?
The word dinosaur is greek for _______ _________.
What is "terrible lizard"?
A fracture or break in the Earth's crust that allow blocks of rock to move past one another.
What is a Fault?
A giant ocean wave caused by a major earthquake with the epicenter in the middle of the ocean.
What is a Tsunami?
A quartz with a green color.
What are emeralds?
A rule that describes a repeatable pattern and can be expressed mathematically.
What is a Scientific Law?
Scorpion-like creatures of the Sulurian.
What are Eurypterids?
Theory that explains earthquakes.
What is Elastic-Rebound Theory?
An opening through which molten rock flows onto the surface.
What is a vent?
What are veins?
Name the four branches of earth science.
The tail end of the stegosaurus.
What is the thagomizer?
The rock on either side of the fault plane slides horizontally.
What is a strike-slip fault?
The vibrations in the crust are created by the energy released when the rock fractures.
What are seismic waves?
Fragments that become concentrated at the bottom of stream beds.
What are placer deposits?
The four primary things that Oceanography studies.
What is waves, tides, the ocean floor, and life in the ocean?
The oldest known vertebrate fossils.
An upcurved fold in which the oldest layer is in the center of the fold.
What is an Anticline?
A type of pyroclastic material less than 64mm in diameter.
What are Lapillis?
A feldspare made with sodium.
What is Plagioclase