Rocks
Sedimentary, Igneous, Volcanic are types of what
What is Rocks.
Name of the famous fault along California.
What is San Andreas fault.
The largest desert in the world.
What is Sahara.
A measure of the size of a volcanic eruption is the VEI. VEI stands for.
What is Volcanic Explosivity Index.
Is a tsunami and a tidal wave the same thing
No. Tsunamis are caused by water displacement as a result of an undersea earthquake or a landslide. Tidal waves are caused by the moon & Sun's gravitational pull combined with prevailing winds and water currents.
The hardest known substance.
What is Diamonds.
The country that has the longest coastline.
What is Canada. (Count the northern islands)
The mountain that produced the largest volcanic eruption recorded in human history.
What is Mount Tambora.
Function of the Boring drill
What is a machine that takes samples form earth to determine layers of rock and dirt to help in agriculture, geology, hydrology, etc.
True or false: the Great Lakes hold more than 20% of the world's available fresh water?
True
Deposition, compaction and solidification of sediments (eg. sand, silt and mud) causes what type of rock.
What is Sedimentary.
The country that has the largest land mass.
What is Russia.
What is the largest lake in the world?
What is the Caspian Sea.
The function of the Richter scale.
What is used to measure the strengths of earthquakes.
True or False, the rock Pumice can float on water.
True.
The original source for coal.
What is decaying organic material in boggy, anoxic environments.
The country with the largest reserve of diamonds.
What is the Dominican Republic of Congo.
Type of plate boundary that is mostly found at ocean ridges.
What is the divergent plate boundaries.
Date the first geological map was invented.
When is March 23, 1769.
True or False: Tiny tiny gold particles are purple.
True. Nano gold is purple! Particle size can change the colour we see.
Moh's Scale rates what?
What is the hardness of rocks.
The tallest mountain in Africa.
Mount Kilimanjaro.
a formation on earth that can have the names tabular, blocky, wedge, dome, pinnacle, dry dock, growler or bergy bit?
The year the first seismograph was invented.
When is A.D. 200 in China
Which crystalline formations are on cave ceilings: stalagmites or stalactites?
Stalactites.