Rocks and Minerals
Earth Layers
Dinosaurs
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Random Trivia
100
What are the three main parts of the Rock Cycle?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
100
What are the 4 main Earth Layers?
Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, Crust
100
Saurischian and Ornithischian mean what?
Bird hipped and lizard hipped
100
Where are most Earthquakes and Volcanoes found on Earth?
At plate boundaries
100
How is water scientifically written?
H2O
200
What mineral makes rocks look like they have glitter in them? This mineral forms in thin sheets.
Muscovite and Biotite Mica
200
What are the 2 types of crust?
Oceanic and Continental
200
What marks the end of each period?
An extinction event
200
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Cinder cone, Shield, and Strato
200
Who was the 6th president?
John Quincy Adams
300
Sandstone Sedimentary
300
What makes the plates move?
Convection Currents
300
The dinosaurs were successful over other animals at the time due to what?
Their sprawling upright stance
300
How high does the earthquake intensity scale range go?
up to 10
300
What Marvel movie is coming out next on November 11th?
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
400
Streak- White or colorless
Hardness- Can be scratched by a fingernail
Color- Colorless to white, brown, grey, silver, can also be brownish-red
Special Feature- Will “fizz” or bubble when you drop vinegar on it
calcite
400
Name the three ways the plates can move.
Converging, diverging, strike slipping
400
Name the three types of fossils we saw.
Trace, Body, Amber/resin
400
What type of volcano is Hawaii?
Shield
400
What number planet away from the sun are we?
3
500
Jordan is standing on this rock. They notice this white mineral in it.
The mineral is not scratching off with a nail or pocket knife.
What is it?
quartz
500
What type of tectonic zone creates deep trenches and volcanoes?
Subduction Zone
500
What type of rock are fossils exclusively found in?
Sedimentary
500
Which type of volcano has very explosive eruption consisting of mostly ash?
Strato
500
What is Mr. Bowen's First name?
Craig