Geology & Astrogeology
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Sciences
GAIA
100
The natural process where rocks, minerals, and soil break down at or near Earth's surface due to contact with air, water, ice, living organisms, and temperature changes
What is Weathering?
100
Anything made, modified, or used by humans, from ancient tools to modern items. These relics usually convey cultural/historical significance.
What is an Artifact?
100
Not a fossil bone, but a fossil behavior; this category includes dinosaur footprints, burrows, bite marks, and even bathroom breaks (feces).
What are trace fossils?
Trace fossils (ichnofossils) are preserved signs of ancient life's activities, like footprints, burrows, trails, nests, and coprolites (fossilized dung), rather than the organism's actual remains (body fossils).
100
This level of the atmosphere is responsible for regulating temperature, containing most of the atmosphere's mass and water vapor, facilitating the water cycle, air circulation, and supporting life
What is the Troposphere?
100
Greek Goddess and Personification of the Earth.
Who is Gaia?
200
The rock type that forms when molten rock cools and hardens, either underground or after a volcanic eruption.
What is Igneous?
200
A person who studies ancient lifeforms (not humans) through fossils.
Who is a paleontologist?
200
True or False?
Some fossil trackways (a sequence of fossil tracks left by a single organism) suggest that certain dinosaurs sometimes walked on two legs and at other times on four, switching depending on speed or behavior.
What is "True"?
Examples: Parasaurolophus, Mussaurus, Spinosaurus, Psittacosaurus
200
This tools main function is to measure atmospheric pressure and predict short-term weather changes by checking changes in the air pressure
What is a Barometer?
200
Angry at her husband, she helped her son overthrow him, leading to the rise of this Titan who ruled before _____
Who is ZEUS? ⚡️⚡️
300
The planet that is home to Olympus Mons, a volcano nearly 3× taller than Mount Everest
What is Mars?
300
The systematic recovery of artifacts by digging.
What is Excavation?
300
True or False?
Body fossils are the preserved results of their activity (like a footprint or burrow), while ichnofossils (trace fossils) are the actual preserved remains of an organism's body (like a bone or shell).
What is "False"?
It's the other way around!!
Body fossils are the actual preserved remains of an organism's body (like a bone or shell), while ichnofossils (trace fossils) are the preserved results of their activity (like a footprint or burrow).
300
This international treaty signed in 1997 was established to combat global warming by reducing GHG emissions from developed countries.
What was the Kyoto Protocol?
300
Gaia and Tartarus are said to be the parents of this multi-headed monster defeated by Heracles as one of his labors.
Who is Typhon
400
The things scientists are trying to figure out about a planet's surface when they use impact craters like fingerprints
Its age and geologic history
400
The technique that uses tree rings to date wooden artifacts or structures.
What is dendrochronology?
400
True or False?
The time between Tyrannosaurus rex and humans is shorter than the time between T. rex and Stegosaurus.
What is "True"?
Stegosaurus: Late Jurassic Period, about 155-144 million years ago (mya).
T. rex: Late Cretaceous Period, about 68-66 mya.
Stegosaurus to T. rex: Roughly 80-85 million years.
T. rex to Humans: Roughly 66 million years
400
These carbon-based gases that easily evaporate at room temperature are found in everyday items like paints, cleaners, and building materials. They pose health risks while also forming smog outdoors.
What are VOCs? (Volatile Organic Compounds)
400
This sky god was both Gaia’s son and husband and became known for imprisoning their children inside her.
Who is Uranus?
500
The reasons Mercury has far more craters than Earth.
What is no atmosphere and no erosion.
500
A method that measures the half-life of a radioactive isotope to date organic materials
What is radiocarbon (or C-14) dating?
500
A sedimentary deposit that preserves an exceptionally high amount of palaeontological information, including delicate features like skin texture, stomach contents, feathers, and more. Usually forms when organisms are buried rapidly in low-oxygen environments such as volcanic ash lakes or fine sediment basins.
What is a Lagerstätte?
500
This type of weather pattern typically brings a wetter-than-normal winter in the Pacific Northwest, and a drier winter for the South.
What is La Nina?
500
The Following Full Name Is Stated As:
“Kashfi _____ Rehan.”
What is ABID