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Plate Tectonics

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A sediment grain size coarser than 64 mm.


















 

 






What is a boulder?















 

 









A much sought after chunk of gold in a placer deposit or chunk of chicken in MacDonalds.












 

 












What is a nugget?














 

 










A fragment of space rock that falls to Earth.















 

 









What is a meteorite?



















 

 





The accumulation of angular debris at the base of a slope that, if lithified, would be a breccia.















 

 









What is scree or talus?
















 

 








One of the two natural satellites of Mars.















 

 









What is Phobos or Deimos?
















 

 








The colour of the square the black queen sits on.















 

 









What is black?
















 

 








The sea surrounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.
















 

 








What is the Black Sea?
















 

 








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.
















 

 








What is chlorophyll?
















 

 








The month named after the Latin number 8, being the eighth month of the Roman calendar.
















 

 








What is October?
















 

 








Of the NHL, CFL, NBA, FA, or NFL, the only league that holds its playoffs in the autumn.
















 

 








What is the CFL?
















 

 








The direct precipitation of water in the solid form when the dew point of the surface layers drops below 0°C.
















 

 








What is frost?
















 

 








The date of the autumnal equinox in Australia.
















 

 








What is 21-23 March?
















 

 








The name of the supercontinent during the age of dinosaurs.
















 

 








What is Pangea?
















 

 








Which of the following adjectives best describes the nature of continental rocks as opposed to that of oceanic rocks: wetter, denser, older, darker.
















 

 








What is older?
















 

 








The famous mountain range that was formed at the collision of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian plates.
















 

 








What are the Himalaya?
















 

 



 





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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.
















 

 








Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
















 

 








Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, ...
















 

 








What is Devonian?
















 

 








Talc, gypsum, calcite, ...
















 

 








What is fluorite?
















 

 








Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, ...
















 

 








What is Miocene?
















 

 








Kingdom, Phylum, Class, ...
















 

 








What is Order?
















 

 








Supergroup, group, formation, ...
















 

 








What is member?
















 

 








Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards.
















 

 








Who are the Rolling Stones?
















 

 








The location of a ring of standing stones in southern England.
















 

 








What is Stonehenge?
















 

 








Pete Townsend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle
















 

 








Who are the Who?
















 

 








Serpentinite, deep sea chert, pillow basalt, sheeted dykes.
















 

 








What is an ophiolite?
















 

 









John Lodge, Justin Hayward, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge

















 

 








Who are the Moody Blues?