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A-100 QUESTION: What do we call the history of the Earth? ANSWER: Geologic Time

A-200 QUESTION: What are the remains or impressions of an organism that lived in the past called? ANSWER: Fossils

A-300 QUESTION: During which Era did early human appear? ANSWER: Cenozoic

A-400 QUESTION: What Era did life evolve? ANSWER: Precambrian

A-500 QUESTION: Which Era did fish evolve? ANSWER: Paleozoic

B-100 QUESTION: What are a collection of all fossils that have been found since the study of fossils began? ANSWER: Fossil Record

B-200 QUESTION: What are the remains of animals that existed for a relatively short period of geologic time? ANSWER: Index Fossils

B-300 QUESTION: Which part of the organism has a better chance to become fossilized? ANSWER: Bones or shells

B-400 QUESTION: Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and ash deposits are examples of? ANSWER: Catastrophic Events

B-500 QUESTION: How many organisms that have lived on Earth does the fossil record represent? ANSWER: .1%

C-100 QUESTION: What are layers of sedimentary rocks called? ANSWER: rock strata

C-200 QUESTION: What kind of rock dating technique compares one rock layer to another rock layer? ANSWER: relative dating

C-300 QUESTION: This states that each sedimentary rock unit is older than the rock unit above it and younger than the unit below it. ANSWER: Law of Superposition

C-400 QUESTION: What do you call a break in the sedimentary geologic record? ANSWER: unconformity

C-500 QUESTION: What causes an unconformity? ANSWER: Nondeposition or erosion

D-100 QUESTION: What is another name for unstable isotopes? ANSWER: Radioactive Isotopes

D-200 QUESTION: What is the calculation of the ratio of parent to daughter isotopes called? ANSWER: Radiometric Dating

D-300 QUESTION: This is the time it takes for one half of the unstable atom to decay into stable atoms. ANSWER: Half-Life

D-400 QUESTION: Which isotope has a half-life of 5,730 years? ANSWER: Carbon-14

D-500 QUESTION: This always happens at a measurable rate. ANSWER: Radioactive decay

E-100 QUESTION: Which scientist introduced the concept of continental drift? ANSWER: Alfred Wegener

E-200 QUESTION: A theory that all the Earth’s land masses were once part of a supercontinent. ANSWER: Pangea

E-300 QUESTION: This type of boundary usually occurs on the ocean floor ANSWER: Divergent Boundaries

E-400 QUESTION: What do you call the bending of rocks? ANSWER: Folding

E-500 QUESTION: This is formed when limestone is put under extreme heat and pressure. ANSWER: Marble

FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: What are the three types of rocks in the rock cycle? ANSWER: Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous