He postulated the 3 famous laws of geology: superposition, lateral continuity, and horizontality?
Who is Nicholas Steno?
100
This orogeny resulted from the first collision with North America in Early Ordovician, starting the assembly of Pangea.
What is the Taconic Orogeny?
100
These photosynthesizing single-celled organisms used to be called blue-green algae and are the first signs of life.
What are cyanobacteria?
100
These are great index fossils for the Cambrian.
What are trilobites?
100
This is the lizard hipped group of dinosaurs.
What is Saurischia?
200
Lamarck was mocked for postulating this concept to explain evolution.
What is "inheritance of acquired characteristics"?
200
The basin and ranges in western US formed during this orogeny?
What is the Laramide Orogeny?
200
This assemblage is one of 2 best known belts that comprise the oldest known Archean rocks that is made up of mildly metamorphosed volcanic rocks including komatiites and basalts.
What are the greenstone belts?
200
Extensive coral reefs and evaporites are characteristic of this sequence.
What is the Tippecanoe sequence?
200
This characteristic feature of pterosaur fossils was well preserved in limestone.
What is a hair-like imprint?
300
They developed a modern geologic map showing distributions of rock based on fossils found in strata. (3 possible answers)
Who are Georges Cuvier, Alexandre Brogniart, and William Smith?
300
The Catskills formed as a result of this orogeny during this period?
What is the Acadian Orogeny during the Devonian?
300
This feature formed as a result of the "great oxygen event".
What are banded iron formations?
300
During the Silurian, this important feature developed in fishes.
What are jaws?
300
These are the reef builders of the late Triassic.
What are scleractinian corals?
400
This is the concept did Hutton and Lyell put forward that contrasted with Gould and Eldridge's "punctuated equilibrium".
What is phyletic gradualism?
400
As Gondwana and Laurasia rift apart, this is the tectonic feature that the central US became.
What is an upland back arc basin?
400
In this model for the creation of the atmosphere, H2O(g), H, CH4, HCl, and CO2 were brought to the surface from the mantle via igneous processes.
What is the Outgassing Model?
400
In the Devonian, these gave rise to snakes and lizards.
What are lepidosaurs?
400
These Cretaceous bird-foot dinosaurs have "duck-bills", are colonial nesters, and have specialized teeth that allow them to masticulate vegetation.
What are ornithopods?
Will also accept hadrosaur.
500
They believed that mountains formed from receding oceans.
Who are the Neptunists?
500
This supergroup formed at the end of the Triassic in North America when thick, red, non-clastic sediments accumulated in downfaulted rift basins as a result of the breakup of Pangea.
What is the Newark Supergroup?
500
This is one of main differences between Archean and Proterozoic rocks.
What is an increase in pure quartz sands and quartzites?
500
These are 3 current explanations for the Permian extinction.
What are glaciation, climate warming, Siberian traps, hypercapnia (extra 100 points for this!)?
500
These Jurassic dinosaurs are 80-100 ft long, have huge long necks, peg-like teeth, and a nose on top of their heads.