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What resources are found in the Appalachians?
Gold
Silver
Coal
Aluminum
2
What is a volcano?
The hottest hot tub in the world
A pool where lava sits
a mountain or hill, where magma comes from the earths crust
a mountain or hill, where lava comes from the earths crust
3
What is a stratovolcano (composite) volcano?
A steep and conical volcano
A low slope volcano
A conical volcano; built up by layers of hardened lava
4
What is the Earth's inner core?
The liquid surrounding the Earths core
Earth's innermost part, a liquid.
Earth's innermost part, a solid.
They don't know, they can't dig that deep.
5
What is Weather?
A way to see the old weather ways
The current weather outside
Something that is rapidly change, causing weird climate.
A span of weather of a number of years
6
What layer is Layer Three?
Bedrock
Regolith
Eluviation
Sub Soil
7
What layer is Layer Two?
Humus
Sub Soil
Top Soil
Eluviation Layer
8
What is the Ring of Fire?
100% of earthquakes and eruptions happen here
An awesome song by Johnny Cash
A cool area to travel
An area in the P. Ocean. Many earthquakes/eruptions happen.
9
What is a Tornado?
A wrestler
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air
A land hurricane
A rotating cloud
10
What is an Earthquake?
a fun roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland
The Earth shaking like a maraca, including a shaking sound
A sudden, violent shaking of the earth
The earth trying to break itself in half
11
What is a shield volcano?
A conical volcano; built up by layers of hardened lava
A low slope volcano
A steep and conical volcano
12
What is under box four?
Heat and pressure
Compaction and Cementation
13
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano?
A conical volcano; built up by layers of hardened lava
A low slope volcano
A steep and conical volcano
14
What resources are in the arctic?
Hunting
Mining
Fishing
15
Which number is the mantel?
2
1
3
4
16
What is under box two?
Volcano dust
Cooling
Heat and pressuere
Weather and Erosion
17
What is under box six?
Heat and cooling
Heat and pressure
18
What is under box seven?
An ingenious (very smart) rock!
Metamorphic Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
19
What is erosion?
Water or wind constantly rubbing rock or soil;
The falling apart walls during hurricanes and tornados
The breaking apart of earth during earthquakes
The bottom of Mr. Duponts shoe
20
What is the Earth's Mantle?
Something you put in a lantern so it lights up
The most inner part of the Earth
Something you hang on the wall to put things on
a layer between the crust and the outer core.
21
What is under Box One?
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Volcanic Hard stuff
22
What kind of natural disaster is this?
Snow storm
Large supercell tornado
Hurricane
The Day after Tomorrow
23
What is Precipitation?
A big sand storm
Any weather condition that is wet
Any weather condition where something falls from the sky
Any weather condition that has a tornado with it
24
Bonus and the end!! What natural disaster occurred here? Where is it?
Volcano- Hawaii, USA
Volcano- Krakatoa, Indonesia
Avalanche- Alaska
Volcano- Pompeii, Italy
25
What is a sedimentary rock?
This rock is formed through the cooling of magma and lava
Rocks made by layers at the bottom of lakes and oceans.
26
What is the Earth's Crust?
It's really thin?
The outermost layer of the planet.
The thing we walk on
The Earth's skin
27
What is the population of the Appalachians?
25 Million
2.5 Million
5 Million
2 Million
28
What is the Earth's outer core?
Earth's innermost part, a liquid.
The liquid surrounding the Earth's inner core
Earth's innermost part, a solid
They don't know, they can't dig that deep.
29
What are Plate Tectonics?
Plates that are used during Thanksgiving
The plates are always on eachother
Large plates on the Earth's surface, floating on molten rock
They are made by earthquakes
30
What is the population of the Canadian Shield?
14 Million
7 Million
2 Million
1.5 Million
31
What is an Ice Age?
A silly children's move
A fun ice castle in Quebec
A short term period where it's very cold
A long-term period where Earth's climate drops alot
32
What is an Ecozone?
A way to divide Earth by classifying through their organisms
A fun place to hike... On the trails!
Classifying plants through their eating habits
Classifying animals
33
What is weathering?
A weather man talking about erosion
Earth destroying rocks
The natural way of making gem stones
The breaking down of minerals on Earths surface.
34
What is a sliding/transforming boundary?
A boundary that separates country's
Left over WW! and WW2 trench boundary's
A man made trench that causes earthquakes
A boundary where two plates rub together
35
What is Climate?
A way to see the old weather ways
The current weather outside
Something that is rapidly change, causing weird weather.
A span of weather of a number of years
36
What layer is Layer Four?
Sub Soil
Top Soil
Humus
Bedrock
37
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is orange, Lava is yellow
Magma Boy and Lava Girl
Lava is hard, magma is a liquid
Magma is below ground, Lava is above
38
What was Pangea?
A child's puzzle
A survival guide on how to survive a tornado
A theory on how all the continents were once all together.
A theory on how the dinosaurs were killed
39
What layer is layer One?
Subsoil
Regoilth
Bedrock
Humus
40
What are seismic waves?
Not water waves
Waves that can sink ships
Giant waves the flood land
Waves caused by the sudden breaking of rock within the earth
41
What does the Fujita Scale do?
Classifies hurricanes based off their damage
Classifies tornadoes based off their damage
Classifies earthquakes based off their damage
Classifies volcanos based off their damage
42
What is under box eight?
Melting
Cooling
Hardening
Just chillin'
43
What is continental Drift Theory?
A theory on how the dinosaurs died
A theory on how earth is a puzzle
A theory on earthquakes causing continents to break
A theory on how all continents shifted apart
44
What is under box five?
Metamorphic Rock
Igneous Rock
Rock and Roll
Sedimentary Rock
45
What is under Box three?
Sediments
Lava
Dust
Magma
46
What is the lithosphere?
The plate tectonic under Lithuania
The gas layer between outer space and Earth
The solid outer section of Earth
A group of kids who's aim is to save Earth
47
What number is the earths crust?
2
1
4
3
48
What is a landform region?
Different National Parks in Canada
The unique way to classify animals by their habitat
An area of Canada with unique characteristics
Different areas of Thorold
49
What is an Igneous Rock?
Rocks made by layers at the bottom of lakes and oceans.
This rock is formed through the cooling of magma and lava
50
What natural disaster caused this?
Tornado
Volano
Tsunami
Earthquake
51
What is Tornado Alley?
Where daredevils jump through Tornadoes
A cool bowling alley in Toronto
Tornado Alley is a term for the area of the United States
An alley where no one lives but lots of tornadoes occour
52
Which number is the inner core?
1
3
4
2
53
What is a Strike Slip?
A government conspiracy
A fault where land moves left or right
A fault where the land cracks open
A river on a fault
54
What is under box nine?
Freezing
Melting
Hardening
Cooling
55
What is the population of the arctic?
a few polar bears and seals
4,000,000
4.2,000,000
5,000,000
56
What are Hot Spots?
A volcano that split open and caused a Lava Tsunami
A volcano that has not stopped erupting for 1000 years
Mantle plumes are areas of hot, upwelling mantle
Free WI-FI!!!!!!
57
What number is the outer core?
3
4
1
2
58
What layer is Layer Five?
Sub Soil
Bedrock
Top Soil
Regolith
59
What layer is Layer Six?
Regolith
Bedrock
hard bed
Sub Soil
60
What are some resources that come from the Canadian Shield?
Mining
substantial deposits of nickel, gold, silver, and copper
Fishing
Wheat
