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How the Earth Was Made
How the Earth Was Made
1. Who was the “father of modern geology?” Where did he live & form his theories?
2. How was the earth formed? Who first proposed this theory?
3. Who used radiation (radiometric dating) to calculate the age of the earth in 1911? What is the generally accepted age of the earth?
4. From where did the earth get water?
5. What kind of rocks produced continents? Where are the oldest continental rocks found?
6. What organism filled the atmosphere with oxygen? Where is it found today?
7. Who was Alfred Wegener? What controversial theory did he propose around 1912?
8. What World War Two-era activity confirmed Wegener’s theory?
9. What is the rate of continental drift? In what part of the world is this particularly visible?
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10. What was Rodinia? What happened to it beginning about 630 million years ago? 11. What was the Cambrian Explosion? 12. What can be found in abundance in the Burgess Shale Quarry in Canada? 13. What phenomena created a UV shield which allowed animals to emerge from the oceans onto land? 14. The Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia is a present-day example of what kind of 300 million year old habitat? Its decomposing plant life created what natural resource? 15. What was the name of the super-continent which formed about 250 million years ago? What class of animals thrived from then to about 65 million years ago? 16. How are diamonds created? Where is most of the world’s supply located? 17. What caused the sudden, catastrophic extinction of the dinosaurs? What evidence supports this theory? 18. What forces created the Swiss Alps? What sits on top of the Matterhorn (other than snow)? 19. What two forces are at work in forming the Grand Canyon? 20. What did the Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz propose? Where in the United States is there evidence of this idea? (Be specific!) 21. Why have humans and human civilization thrived for the last 10,000 years? 22. What is predicted fate of earth in the very distant (millions, even billions of years from now) future? |
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