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The Age of the Universe
What is 15 billion years?
My name is M85, but this is the kind of galaxy that I am.
What is barred spiral?
This is the name of the galaxy that we inhabit.
What is the Milky Way?
These are the three types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical and irregular?
This is the number years light would need to get to a galaxy 5 parsecs away.
What is 16.3?
It was the index fossil used at the start of the Mesozoic era.
What is a trilobite?
Means “Middle Age”
What is Mesozoic?
This was the time of the “great dying” mass extinction.
What is the Permian Period?
This is the type of rock that contains the most fossils.
What is sedimentary?
This present day type of animal is a descendent of the dinosaurs.
What is a bird?
These two elements are found in all fossil fuels.
What is hydrogen and carbon?
This is metamorphic coal.
What is anthracite?
This is produced by the accumulation of microorganisms on the ocean floor, and lots of time and pressure.
What is oil or natural gas?
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What is the carbon content of Anthracite, in percents?
This is the major source of energy in Iceland, which is on a rift valley.
What is Geothermal?
This is the deepest part of the ocean, when oceans and continents collide.
What is a trench?
This is the name of the last super continent.
What is Pangaea?
This is the name of the mountain range, in the Pacific Ocean, where new Earth is “formed”.
What is the mid- ocean ridge?
This is the name of the major transform fault, under Los Angeles.
What is the San Andreas fault?
This forms when two oceans collide, Japan is an example.
What is an Island Arc?
This is the approximate latitude of the Polar Jet Stream.
What is 60º
The tradewinds are between these latitudes.
What are 0º and 30º?
These are the six layers of the atmosphere.
What are the 1.Troposphere 2.Mesosphere 3.Stratosphere 4.Thermosphere 5.Ionosphere 6.Exosphere
These two air masses join to form tornado alley.
What is cP and mT?
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This is the direction the air araound a High Pressure system will flow in Australia.
This is the parent rock, of all rocks on Earth (a type of rock).
What is Igneous?
The type of heat transfer between two people.
What is infra-red?
This man was able to combine unconformities, law of original horizontality, evolution and uniformitarianism, into one working hypothesis.
Who is Chuck Norris?
This man calculated the inflationary rate of the Universe. It is his “constant”.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
This is the number of lightyears in one parsec.
What is 3.26?
Make your wager
This was the number of the last Apollo mission to land on the moon.
What is 17