Paleontology
VT Geoscientists
Geology Locations
Flags
100
What shape do animals that fly and swim make when they move their arms
figure eight
100
research in chemical hydrogeology is to develop approaches to make quantitative predictions about solute behavior in natural waters.
Madeline E. Schreiber
100
these pillars are polygonal shaped due to the cooling of the layers of lava and the atomic structure and natural fracturing of basalt
Giants Causeway, Ireland
100
What does it mean when a county's flag is upside down?
Distress
200
Which group have been theorized to "bloat and float" out into the ocean because of them being found in marine deposits?
Ankylosaurs
200
a geochemist and sedimentary geologist that specializes in reconstructing the present and past chemical cycles on our planet. Much of this work is focused on intervals in the Earth’s past that contain major climatic and environmental changes, as well as, major mass extinction events.
Benjamin Gill
200
A gigantic sinkhole off the coast. The hole was formed through karsting episodes of limestone where the limestone dissolves. The dissolution of limestone occurs differently during high and low sea levels
The Blue Hole, Belize
200
What countries flag is made up of 2 triangle?
Nepal
300
Do Alligators have a sprawling stance or an erect stance?
Both
300
This person's group is focused on understanding crystal nucleation and growth, specifically biomineralization— the processes by which organisms produce minerals within their tissues to form the functional structures that we know as skeletons and other organic-mineral composites.
Patricia M. Dove
300
This cave boasts up to 40 ft long and 13 ft diameter selenite crystals
Crystal Cave, Mexico
300
What country had a completely green flag from 1977 to 2011?
Libya
400
Why are the terms "ornithischian" and "saurischian" and which one group became birds
One means "bird-hipped" and the other means "lizard-hipped", but it's the "lizard-hipped" became birds
400
My research centers on exploring the macroevolutionary patterns and processes of biodiversity and morphological disparity, including how species diversify in the functional, phylogenetic, and developmental constraints of convergent evolution within an explicitly evolutionary framework.
Michelle Stocker
400
Soviet geologists found and drilled for natural gas here in 1971 when the ground began to collapse to leave a large crater. To prevent inhalation of poisonous gas, the crater was set on fire, believing the natural gas would quickly be burned off and the fire would go out. However, the fire pit is still burning today with no signs of letting up from the seeping natural gas. There have been many failed attempts to put the fire out.
The Door To Hell, Turkmenistan
400
The snake from "don't tread on me" flag is usually credited with coming from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette "Join or Die" political cartoon. Actually it is a reference to a comment he made about what he wanted to do to England, what was it?
Send a ship full of Rattlesnakes to England
500
What does the group name "Macronaria" translate to? Animal in this group include Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, and Giraffatitan
"Large nose hole"
500
geophysicist that measures millimeter precision surface motions with GNSS/GPS and employs computational modeling to investigate the physics driving those motions.
D. Sarah Stamps
500
This location has yielded some of the best preserved amber specimens in the world, dating back to the Cretaceous . Notable finds have been whole lizards, snakes, birds, and the tail of a feathered dinosaur.
amber mines in Myanmar
500
This city in Peru has a flag that is always mistaken for the Gay Pride flag, but it has an extra color of purple, what city is it?
Cusco
