Oh My Stars!
A natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star
What is a satellite?
The study of Earth's physical structure, its history, the processes acting on it,and the rocks of which it is composed
What is geology?
The study of weather
What is meteorology?
Two or more atoms linked together to make a substance with unique properties
What is a molecule?
A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change that object's velocity
What is force?
The amount of light or radiation reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon
What is an albedo?
The four major layers of the Earth in order from outermost to innermost
What are crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The two major regions of the atmosphere
What are homosphere and heterosphere?
The three basic parts of an atom
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The way that velocity differs from speed
What is contains a direction of a particular speed?
The event that enables scientists to learn more about the sun's atmosphere, including its corona and loops of gas extending outward
What is a total solar eclipse?
The major carrier of sediments that makes them settle in layers
What is water?
The type of cloud that is white, puffy, and flat-bottomed shaped
What is a cumulus cloud?
Mixing a glass of lemonade is an example of this type of change; whereas cooking an egg is an example of this type of change
What are physical change and chemical change?
Newton's Third Law
What is for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
The four terrestrial planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The fossilization process that forms a 3-dimensional preserved fossil that is completely made of rock
What is petrification?
The type of front that includes warm advancing air moving over a mass of cold air
What is a warm front?
The two categories of pure substances
What are elements and compounds?
Two types of simple machines with examples of each
What are (1) lever--wheelbarrow, (2) wheel&axle--car steering wheel, (3) pulley--block&tackle, (4) inclined plane--ramp, (5) wedge--log splitter, and/or (6) screw--wood screw?
The correct order of meteor/meteoroid/meteorite from the farthest distance from the Earth until that object lands on the Earth
What is meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?
Two of the four features that describe the fossil record
What are (1) most fossils are found in sedimentary rock, (2) vast majority of all fossils on this planet are of hard-shelled organisms, (3) it contains the remains of some organisms still living today, and (4) fossils found in one layer of stratified rock can be considerably different from fossils found in another layer of stratified rock?
Two of the air properties that meteorologists use to predict weather
What are temperature, pressure, humidity, and/or wind direction?
Two properties of acids and two properties of bases
For acids, what are taste sour, conduct electricity in water, and/or donate hydrogen ions?
For bases, what are slippery to the touch, receive hydrogen ions, and/or taste chalky or bitter?
A closed path through which electric current flows
What is an electric circuit?