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Rocks for Jocks
Natural Disasters
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Culture
Oregon Geology
Epic
Earth
100

What are the three main types of rock?

sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic

100

The grounds-a-shakin! In this type of natural disaster you'll want to drop, cover, and hold on!

Earthquake
100

What football team did the Oregon Ducks beat this weekend?

The Ohio State University

100

What is the tallest mountian in Oregon?

Mt. Hood

100

What are the four main layers of the Earth?

crust, mantle, outer-core, core

200

Name the four types of faults

normal, reverse, strike-slip, oblique

200

Name the 4 main types of waves produced by an earthquake.

P, S, Love, and Rayleigh

200
Name the album released this year that is famous for its bright, lime green, album cover.

BRAT

200

What is the name of the subducting plate off the Oregon coast?

Juan de Fuca

200

What are the 2 main elements that make up the Earth's core?

Iron and Nickel

300
What is the name of the dark, glassy, volcanic rock that forms when molten lava cools rapidly?

Obsidian 

300

This volcano created the loudest recorded sound, at a whopping 310dB! What's its name

KRAKATOA!

300

Name one actress staring in the new movie adaptation of the musical Wicked.

Ariana Grande or Cynthia Erivo

(also accept: Michelle Yeoh)

300
What is the name of the lava flows that covered much of Oregon between 17.5 and 6 million years ago?

Columbia River basalts

300

What are the two types of crust, and what are their approximate thicknesses?

Continental (70km-25km)& Oceanic (10km-6km)

400

Felsic, intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic magmas are differentiated by their content of what element?

Silica

400

Two major hurricanes hit the east coast of the US this past month. Name one.

Helene and Milton

400

What member of a famous British boy band died earlier today in a tragic accident in Argentina?

Liam Payne

400

These two mountain ranges are considered the oldest in Oregon! Name one.

Blue & Klamath ranges

400

Name one of the two locations on Earth where a mantle plume is located underneath a mid-ocean ridge.

Iceland or the Galapagos

500

What are the three types of meteorites found on earth?

Stony, iron & stony-iron

500

What is the name of the current system that ranks tornado intensity?

The Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale

500

What is the name of the Hulu TV series currently being filmed that stars Glen Powell as a former Oregon Ducks football player?

Chad Powers

500

Consisting of Obsidian, this lava flow is the youngest in the state. How old is it?

1300 years

500

This celestial body crashed into the Earth leading to the formation of the moon.

Theia