| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): May 15 02:40PM > * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Plate Tectonics > 1. What ocean is surrounded by an area of igneous activity called > the "Ring of Fire"? Pacific > 2. What volcanic island rose above the sea off Iceland in 1963? Surtsey > 5. Alfred Wegener proposed the hypothesis of continental drift > in 1912. He suggested then that a supercontinent had once > existed -- what did he call it? Pangaea > 6. When a plate begins to split apart, what feature appears? rift valley > 7. A major African lake and a major Asian lake are both found in > examples of an <answer 6> -- name either one. Lake Victoria > 8. A plate that lies mostly under the Pacific Ocean off Peru > """is""" named for a well-known early culture of South America. > What """is""" that name? Incan Plate > 9. When two plates collide and one slides under the edge of the > other, this is called what? subduction > 1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo6/3/A.jpg > This script was used in various forms to write many languages, > not all of them related. cuneiform > 2. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo6/3/B.jpg > This one is found on the edges of stones scattered across > Ireland. ogham > This adaptation of the Greek alphabet was used in Egypt from > the 4th to the 9th century and is still seen today (rarely). > Its name matched the language it was used for. Coptic > 4. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo6/3/D.jpg > This variation on the Roman alphabet was widely used across > Northern Europe. runic > """recently""" deciphered by about six people working > cooperatively, after scholars in the field spent decades > on the wrong track. Mayan > some of the letters, but little meaning can be drawn from the > surviving inscriptions. Again, the script is called by the > name of the language, which is...? Etruscan > Used by a famous seafaring people of the Mediterranean, this > is the ancestor of many modern scripts. It is named for the > people and their language. Phoenecian > This script was deciphered in about 1954 by Michael Ventris. > The language is actually Greek, even though he initially > conjectured that it was <answer 6> -- what do we call the script? Linear B > This script was found by archaeologists at a site called > Mohenjo-daro, now in Pakistan. It has not yet been deciphered. > It currently goes by what name? Indus > using three scripts. The bottom portion of the stone is in > Greek, the top portion is in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and here > is most of the middle section -- written in what script? demotic -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Pete Gayde <pete.gayde@gmail.com>: May 15 04:33PM -0500 Mark Brader wrote: > * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Plate Tectonics > 1. What ocean is surrounded by an area of igneous activity called > the "Ring of Fire"? Pacific > of one -- two examples of such regions are the Hawaiian Islands > and Yellowstone National Park. What are such regions called? > 4. What plate """does""" Toronto sit on? North American > 5. Alfred Wegener proposed the hypothesis of continental drift > in 1912. He suggested then that a supercontinent had once > existed -- what did he call it? Gondwanaland > 6. When a plate begins to split apart, what feature appears? Rift valley > 7. A major African lake and a major Asian lake are both found in > examples of an <answer 6> -- name either one. Lake Victoria; Lake Tanganyika > 8. A plate that lies mostly under the Pacific Ocean off Peru > """is""" named for a well-known early culture of South America. > What """is""" that name? Incan plate > 9. When two plates collide and one slides under the edge of the > other, this is called what? Upheaval > 1. See: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/msb/oo6/3/A.jpg > This script was used in various forms to write many languages, > not all of them related. Sanskrit > some of the letters, but little meaning can be drawn from the > surviving inscriptions. Again, the script is called by the > name of the language, which is...? Etruscan > Used by a famous seafaring people of the Mediterranean, this > is the ancestor of many modern scripts. It is named for the > people and their language. Phoenician > using three scripts. The bottom portion of the stone is in > Greek, the top portion is in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and here > is most of the middle section -- written in what script? Aramaic Pete Gayde |
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