Environmental Science
A process that consumes carbon dioxide
What is photosynthesis?
Age of the Earth
What is 4.5 billion years old?
Word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor?
ULGS stands for..
UL Geoscience Society
Number of universities in the University of Louisiana system
What is 9?
Gas that is most responsible for the greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide?
Rock made with heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
Name of the cooler, darker sections of the Sun
What are sunspots?
AWG stands for...
Association of Women Geoscientists
Former name for UL
What is the University of Southeastern Louisiana?
Element that is missing in an anoxic environment
What is oxygen?
Scientific scale for measuring the hardness of rocks
What is Mohs Hardness Scale?
Type of planets that are dense and rocky
What are terrestrial planets?
AAPG stands for..
What is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists?
First president of UL
Who was Dr. Edwin Stephens?
The "hole" in the ozone layer mostly lays over this continent
What is Antartica?
Name given to calcite deposits suspended from cave ceilings
What are stalactites?
Hottest planet in the solar system
What is Venus?
SEG stands for...
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Number of students currently enrolled at UL
~19,000
Number of soil horizons (not including the R horizon)
What is 5 (O, A, E, B, C)?
Name the big ten minerals
What are amphibole, biotite, calcite, anorthite (Ca-rich plagioclase), muscovite, albite (Na-rich plagioclase), olivine, K-feldspar, pyroxene, and quartz?
Closest galaxy to the Milky Way
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
SVP stands for...
Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists
Final score for Homecoming football game
What is 20-17?