Astrobiology 2015

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Across
  1. 2. We are all….
  2. 7. An iron ore Pennsylvanian puff
  3. 9. Surname of the gallery’s benefactor
  4. 10. A big, predatory fish that lived 89-85 mya.
  5. 12. What month is this?
  6. 13. Fluorescent minerals glow when exposed to this kind of light
  7. 14. Age of the Microbes
  8. 19. Massive Manganese
  9. 20. A yellow, nonmetallic mineral collected from Louisa County, Virginia.
  10. 21. Columbia (South America) mineral that is May’s birthstone
  11. 22. Era of the petrified wood
  12. 24. Where the sulfur mouse comes from.
  13. 25. Property of minerals in the UV room
  14. 27. Description of the Nautilus’ shell
  15. 28. A top shelf Silurian sea scorpion.
  16. 29. Color of the rock in the lady’s restroom
  17. 30. The largest physiographic province in Virginia
  18. 32. A hollow nodule lined with crystals.
  19. 33. All the early Precambrian fossils are this type of tiny organism.
  20. 35. Rainbow crystals made in a German lab
Down
  1. 1. Process by which organisms change and diversify over time.
  2. 2. Type of rock most fossils are found in.
  3. 3. A round, green mineral ball of unknown origin
  4. 4. Massive, shiny heavy metal silver from the Huanzala Mine, Peru
  5. 5. WHERE WAS I OVER FALL BREAK? (one word)
  6. 6. Xylabion, Drotops, Leonaspis, Phacops, Elrathia
  7. 8. Xiphactinus’ vampiric oral feature.
  8. 11. The science of life in the universe.
  9. 15. You wouldn’t be blue with 2,491 carats of this Brazilian Bling (one word)
  10. 16. An odd bending thing from Virginia
  11. 17. Big rusty from Oklahoma
  12. 18. Congolese broccoli mineral from Africa
  13. 23. A space rock
  14. 26. Blue eggs from Arizona
  15. 29. __________ Tectonics
  16. 31. Gallery has a lot of these rock parts on display
  17. 33. Name of the current special gallery exhibit
  18. 34. Tracey’s massively long thing
  19. 35. Most massive mined museum specimen
  20. 36. The big Manitoceras rock is from here