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Exploring Michigan's Geologic History and Fossils in a Fun Jeopardy Format

Dive into Michigan's rich geologic history and the fascinating world of fossils through an engaging Jeopardy game format! Discover the ages of the Earth, learn about significant periods like the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, and identify fossils such as brachiopods and trilobites. Test your knowledge on concepts like superposition and uniformitarianism while competing for points. Perfect for students, educators, and fossil enthusiasts alike, this activity combines fun and learning about Michigan's geological treasures!

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Exploring Michigan's Geologic History and Fossils in a Fun Jeopardy Format

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  1. Relative dating Geologic time miscellaneous Michigan geologic history fossils $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 Final Jeopardy $500 $500 $500 $500

  2. C1 $100 Name this fossil

  3. C1? $100 What is a brachiopod?

  4. C1 $200 What is most likely to become fossilized on a critter

  5. C1 $200 What are hard parts?

  6. C1 $300 Name this fossil

  7. C1 $300 What is a trilobite?

  8. C1 $400 Name this fossil)

  9. C1 $400 What is horn coral?

  10. C1 final The final Jeopardy answer is: The “present is the key to the past” is this geologic principle Timer

  11. C1 final What is uniformitarianism?

  12. C2 $100 The era of the Michigan’s lower Peninsula bedrock

  13. C2 $100 What is Paleozoic

  14. C2 $200 The oldest era bedrock in MI

  15. C2 $200 What is precambrian?

  16. C2 $300 The geologic time period when glaciers covered Michigan

  17. C2 $300 What is quaternary?

  18. C2 $400 How the Michigan basin formed

  19. C2 $400 What is from the evaporation of a tropical sea

  20. C2 $500 The geologic time period when MI salt deposits formed

  21. C2 $500 What is Silurian?

  22. C3 $100 Law which states the oldest layer is on the bottom

  23. C3 $100 What is superposition?

  24. C3 $200 Law used to date the age of faults and intrusions

  25. C3 $200 What is the law of cross-cutting relationships?

  26. C3 $400 What is the law of original horizontality?

  27. C3 $300 Law that says that sedimentary layers are deposited as flat bedding planes

  28. C3 $300 The type of unconformity seen in MI between Pennsylvanian and Quaternary periods?

  29. C3 $400 What is disconformity(?)

  30. C3 $500 Type of unconformity that involves folding

  31. C3 $500 What is an angular unconformity?

  32. C4 $100 Era of the dinosaurs

  33. C4 $100 What is Mesozoic?

  34. C4 $200 Era in which trilobites dominated

  35. C4 $200 What is Paleozoic

  36. C4 $300 Era of mammals

  37. C4 $300 What is Cenozoic

  38. C4 $400 Oldest known life form on earth

  39. C4 $400 What are stromatolites?

  40. C4 $500 Geologic time PERIOD during which Petoskey Stones were alive in MI

  41. C4 $500 What is Devonian?

  42. C5 $100 Carbon-14 is an example of this. Also the name of Homer Simpson’s softball team

  43. C5 $100 What is an isotope?

  44. C5 $200 Tree sap fossilizes into this

  45. C5 $200 What is amber?

  46. C5 $300 Dating technique used to find a numerical age of a rock

  47. C5 $300 What is absolute dating?

  48. C5 $400 This caused the dinosaur extinction

  49. C5 $400 What is an asteroid?

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