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Moving Crust
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Fossils and Geological Time
Fossil Fuels
100
What is the name of our most recent super continent?
What is Pangea
100
What technological device is used to measure seismic activity?
What are seismographs
100
A volcano which we believe to be inactive is called?
What is dormant
100
The type of fossil where the actual organism or parts of the organism are preserved.
What are original remains
100
What are the three main types of fossil fuels?
What are coal, crude oil, and natural gas
200
What is the earth layer under the crust? (be specific)
What is the upper mantle
200
What do we use to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
What is the Richter scale
200
What is the name for the hot molten rock that escapes through volcanoes?
What is lava
200
The idea that layers of rock deeper down are older, and the ones on top are younger.
What is the principle of superposition
200
A general area where we are likely to find fossil fuels
What are pre-existing ocean/lake beds. Or sedimentary basins
300
What are the three types of tectonic plate movements?
What are convergent, divergent, and transform/sliding
300
What is the term used to define where an earthquake originates from?
What is the focus
300
The hole from which lava escapes from a volcano
What is a vent
300
What type of fossil is formed by bones hollowing out and being filled by sediment and minerals?
What are petrified fossils
300
Modern technology used to locate fossil fuels underground
What are seismic waves and crews
400
The ring of fire is located around the boarder of which tectonic plate?
What is the Pacific Plate
400
What are the three types of waves produced from an earthquake and read on a seismograph?
What are Primary Waves, Secondary Waves, and Surface Waves
400
What do they call the smoke and ash from a volcanic eruption?
What is a pyroclastic cloud/flow
400
The oldest time period where life originates and begins to diversify
What is precambrian
400
The name of naturally occurring hydrocarbons which include coal, oil, and gas.
What is Petroleum
500
What is the current theory for what we believe moves tectonic plates?
What are convection currents
500
What mathematical process uses the readings from three seismographs to determine the epicenter of an earthquake?
What is triangulation
500
A volcanic eruption will be violent if there is a large build up of...
What is pressure
500
The use of half-life knowledge provides for this type of dating
What is absolute dating
500
What's the name of the company that Mr.G's brother works for?
What is Automated Rig Technologies