2. Michigan geologic history
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Michigan geologic history
fossils
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Name this fossil

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What is a brachiopod?

5. What is most likely to become fossilized on a critter

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What are hard parts?

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Name this fossil

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What is a trilobite?

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Name this fossil)

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What is horn coral?

11. The “present is the key to the past” is this geologic principle
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The “present is the key to the past” is this geologic principle
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12. What is uniformitarianism?
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What is uniformitarianism?

13. The era of the Michigan’s lower Peninsula bedrock

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What is Paleozoic

15. The oldest era bedrock in MI

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What is precambrian?

17. The geologic time period when glaciers covered Michigan

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What is quaternary?

19. How the Michigan basin formed

20. What is from the evaporation of a tropical sea

21. The geologic time period when MI salt deposits formed

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What is Silurian?

23. Law which states the oldest layer is on the bottom

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What is superposition?

25. Law used to date the age of faults and intrusions
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Law used to date the age of faults and intrusions

26. What is the law of cross-cutting relationships?

27. What is the law of original horizontality?
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What is the law of original horizontality?

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Law that says that sedimentary layers are deposited as flat bedding planes

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The type of unconformity seen in MI between Pennsylvanian and Quaternary periods?

30. What is disconformity(?)

31. Type of unconformity that involves folding

32. What is an angular unconformity?

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Era of the dinosaurs

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What is Mesozoic?

35. Era in which trilobites dominated

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What is Paleozoic

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Era of mammals

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What is Cenozoic

39. Oldest known life form on earth
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Oldest known life form on earth

40. What are stromatolites?
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What are stromatolites?

41. Geologic time PERIOD during which Petoskey Stones were alive in MI

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What is Devonian?

43. Carbon-14 is an example of this type of unstable atom

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What is an isotope?

45. Tree sap fossilizes into this
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Tree sap fossilizes into this

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What is amber?

47. Dating technique used to find a numerical age of a rock

48. What is absolute dating?
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What is absolute dating?

49. This caused the dinosaur extinction

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What is an asteroid?

51. 18O has how many neutrons? (atomic number=8)

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What is 10?

53. (Science Teacher extrodanarie)
This Jeopardy game was created by
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This Jeopardy template was created by Dr. Robert Pettis, Director
An Adventure of the American Mind, University of South Carolina Spartanburg