Rocks and Minerals
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Earth's Resume
Superposition laws
Graceful Aging
100
These non-living naturally made things can be affected by temperature/pressure, presence of water, and other environmental factors.
What is a mineral?
100
Even though I am usually forgotten in the rock cycle, I am the parent of all rocks.
What is a volcano, eruption, or magma/lava?
100
These objects can tell about Earth's past.
What are fossils and rocks?
100
The Law of Original Horizontality states that rocks or sediment will be layed or formed in what kind of layers?
What is horizontal?
100
This type of age dating is comparing and guesstimating.
What is relative dating?
200
This type of rock is made from intense pressure and heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
The best part of this process is that the end products made from existing pieces of others.
What is compaction and cementation.
200
This massive flood create well-known and popular landmarks in the Midwest United States.
What is the Kankakee Torrent?
200
This law states that any inclusions or events are younger than the layers they are found in.
What is cross-cutting relationships?
200
If marine fossils are found on land, what might that piece of land once have been?
What is an ocean or body of water?
300
This type of rock is made by compaction and concretion of sediments.
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
This type of rock would form from igneous rock being under intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
This record system uses rocks and fossils to organize time.
What is the geologic time scale?
300
Do the Laws of Superposition mostly relate to relative dating or absolute dating?
What is relative dating?
300
This type of age dating calculated the actual age in years, usually in millions or billions.
What is absolute dating?
400
This type of rock is affected by the location and speed at which it cools.
What is igneous rock?
400
In order for a certain type of rock to be made, lava/magma needs to cool after this type of event.
What is a volcanic eruption?
400
What are the four divisions of the geologic time scale?
What are eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
400
What is the law to determine if a fossil is older or younger than other fossils?
What is The Law of Faunal Succession?
400
Order the layers from oldest to youngest:
What is B, C, D, A, and E?
500
The Peoria area is abundant in this type of sedimentary rock, and there is even a high school named after it.
What is limestone?
500
If igneous rock is put under intense heat and pressure to form into a certain type of rock, what do the pieces turn into after weathering takes place?
What is sediment?
500
Our current year fits into which section of the geologic time scale?
What is the Holocene epoch of Quaternary period, part of the Cenozoic era and Phanerozoic eon?
500
Is number 3 older or younger than number 6?
What is younger?
500
If I was the middle child, being two years older than my youngest sibling (15 years old), and 5 years younger than my eldest sibling, how old is my eldest sibling?
What is 22 years old?