Stratigraphy
True or False. A layer that is beneath another layer or rock would be older.
What is TRUE?
Earth is this many years old.
What is 4.6 BILLION YEARS?
The name of the era that Earth formed during.
What is the HADEAN ERA?
There are this many days in December.
What is 31?
When animals sleep, or go dormant during the winter.
What is HIBERNATION?
This idea states that lower layers of rocks in a series are older and upper layers of rocks are younger.
What is the LAW OF SUPERPOSITION?
The dinosaurs went extinct this many million years ago.
The name of the period we currently live in.
What is the QUATERNARY PERIOD?
True or False. No two snowflakes are alike in their structure.
What is TRUE?
What is DECEMBER 25?
This type of rock is formed in a desert environment.
What is SANDSTONE?
The first forms of life evolved here.
What is THE SEA?
What is the MESOZOIC ERA?
Hanukkah started on this date this year.
What is NOVEMBER 28?
What is DECEMBER 18?
True or False. Magma cutting through sedimentary rock layers usually formed BEFORE the sedimentary layers were formed.
What is FALSE? The magma would have cut through the layers AFTER the layers were formed.
True or False. Humans and dinosaurs co-existed on Earth.
What is FALSE?
The name of the era the first fish evolved in.
What is the PALEOZOIC ERA?
What is a PTARMIGAN / BLACK-TAILED WEASEL / SNOWSHOE HARE?
This type of butterfly migrates south to Mexico during the winter.
What is the MONARCH BUTTERFLY?
What is the LAW OF CROSS-CUTTING RELATIONSHIPS?
The name of the period that had the first animals with backbones.
What is the CAMBRIAN PERIOD?
The winter solstice is the longest day of the year and it occurs on this date.
What is DECEMBER 21?
What is 6?