Loose Bits of Rock |
Black or White |
Autumn |
Plate Tectonics |
1, 2, 3...you give 4 |
Rock groups |
A sediment grain size coarser than 64 mm.
A much sought after chunk of gold in a placer deposit or chunk of chicken in MacDonalds.
A fragment of space rock that falls to Earth.
The accumulation of angular debris at the base of a slope that, if lithified, would be a breccia.
One of the two natural satellites of Mars.
The colour of the square the black queen sits on.
The sea surrounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.
The three primary colours of light that if added together produce white light.
What are red, green and blue?
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The notorious Indian prison from the early days of the British Empire.
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?
The foraminiferal headlands of southeastern England, sung about by Vera Lynn.
What are the White Cliffs of Dover?
The green pigment in leaves that fades in the fall.
The month named after the Latin number 8, being the eighth month of the Roman calendar.
Of the NHL, CFL, NBA, FA, or NFL, the only league that holds its playoffs in the autumn.
The direct precipitation of water in the solid form when the dew point of the surface layers drops below 0°C.
The date of the autumnal equinox in Australia.
The name of the supercontinent during the age of dinosaurs.
Which of the following adjectives best describes the nature of continental rocks as opposed to that of oceanic rocks: wetter, denser, older, darker.
The famous mountain range that was formed at the collision of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian plates.
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The movements of the plates are today mostly determined by one of these space-based systems.
What are GPS (global positioning satellites) or SLR (satellite laser ranging) systems?
He was the first person to publish the observation that Africa and South America look as if they fit together.
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, ...
Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, ...
Supergroup, group, formation, ...
Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards.
The location of a ring of standing stones in southern England.
Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle
Serpentinite, deep sea chert, pillow basalt, sheeted dykes.
John Lodge, Justin Hayward, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge