NAME ______________________ DATE ________ TIME IN _____ TIME OUT ____

SIGNATURE OF ATTENDANT(S) ____________________, _____________________

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM GEOLOGY FIELD TRIP

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TASKS.

THIS SELF GUIDED FIELD TRIP WILL TAKE ABOUT TWO HOURS. UPON ENTERING THE MUSEUM AND GETTING YOUR STICKER, HAVE THE TICKET PERSON SIGN AND PLACE THE TIME YOU ENTERED ON THIS SHEET, WHEN YOU LEAVE, HAVE SOMEONE VALIDATE THIS WITH THE TIME YOU LEFT.

PROCEED TO THE ROCKS AND MINERALS SECTION PAST THE DINO EXHIBIT.

THE QUESTIONS AND TASKS APPEAR (SORT OF ) TO FOLLOW THE SAME ORDER AS THE EXHIBITS.

Name and date fossils for the following periods

cretaceous

silurian

ordivician

cambrian

pre-cambrian

Describe how life began .

Define creep

Define slump

Define earthflow

Recipe for soil exhibit

choose one interactive and take notes

Rocks from life

what are evaporites?

Name two fossil corals and their periods

name the types of coal and their age of formation

Glaciers in Ohio

how many glaciers covered Ohio/

Ohio rocks interactive

describe three of the selections. This is the price you pay for extra credit!

Describe the six ways to identify minerals ( hint: on right wall….”luster”

play with the microscope and the mineral samples. Which is your favorite? Why?

Plate tectonics exhibit

interactive. Describe the position of Cleveland at -600 million years, -400 million, -250, -150 and + 100 million years.

Earthquake zone

describe p and s waves

Volcano zone

interactive- take brief notes on birth of a volcano and extinct, active and dormant volcanoes

Ores and Mining exhibit

interactive….search for two minerals, sample, extract and reclaim.

What yield did you get

how much materil did you have to remove

what was the best way to reclaim?

describe the gossan, oxidized, supergene, and protore zones in open pit mining

play with mr. Mumbles world of rocks and minerals.