Astronomy
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Human Impact
100
What takes place at the center of the sun?
What is, nuclear fusion.
100
Name the earth's layers.
What is, crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
100
What percent of the Earth's water is Fresh Water?
What is, 3%
100
What is the atmospheric layer is closest to the ground?
What is, troposphere.
100
What does the greenhouse effect do?
What is, atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide and methane trap heat close to Earth's surface and prevent it from escaping into space.
200
Which planet is the largest?
What is, Jupiter.
200
What are the different types of plate boundaries?
What is, divergent plate boundaries, convergent boundaries, transform boundaries.
200
What percent of the Earth's water is Salt Water?
What is, 97%.
200
What is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
What is, nitrogen.
200
What are CFCs?
What is, a human-made chemical that is the main cause of the thinning of the ozone layer.
300
What causes the tides?
What is, the gravity of the moon.
300
What scale is used to measure earthquakes?
What is, the Richter Scale.
300
Which one is more dense, hot or cold water?
What is, cold water.
300
What does the ozone layer do?
What is, it protects us from ultra violet radiation.
300
What is erosion?
What is, the wearing away of surface soil by water and wind.
400
Who first thought that the Earth rotated in an ellipses?
What is, Kepler.
400
What are the two forces that cause metamorphic rock to form?
What is, extreme heat and pressure.
400
Does water have a high or low specific heat?
What is, high.
400

What layer do you find the ozone?

What is, the stratosphere

400
What is smog?
What is, air that is visibly polluted with water vapor mixed with chemicals that result from human activities
500

What theory supports how solar systems form?

What is the nebular hypothesis theory. 

500
Who had the idea of continental drift?
What is, Alfred Wegner.
500
Define the capillary action?
What is, waters ability to climb and rise.
500
What is the coldest layer in the atmosphere?
What is, the mesosphere.
500

What is created when sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide are released into the atmosphere?

What is, acid rain.

M
e
n
u