Lesson 1
The area of the universe we can observe
What is the Observable Universe?
The zone in the universe where life could be possible
What is the Habitable Zone?
The shape of Earth
What is a Sphere?
The art of making maps
What is Cartography?
The structure of minerals
What is a crystal structure?
This causes waves
What is wind?
This pulls cooler air back down to earth
What is gravity?
The environmental conditions at a specific time
What is Weather?
The combination of a climate zone and the life that exists in that zone
What is a biome?
The term that means super salty
What is hypersaline?
The name of the galaxy that we live in
What is the Milky Way?
Another name for the Habitable Zone
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
The name of the sphere scientists study to learn more about the land.
Lines of latitude travel in this direction
What is North to South?
This forms when two tectonic plates collide
What are mountains?
The longest river
What is the Nile River?
The two main gasses in the air
What are Oxygen and Nitrogen?
A cloud that is at ground level
What is fog?
A cycle that starts with the sun and end with the top consumer
What is a food chain?
The two causes of geysers erupting
What is heat and pressure?
1 of the 3 types of galaxies
What are elliptical, or spiral, or irregular?
Colorful lights caused by the magnetosphere.
What is an aurora?
The three main types of water in the hydrosphere
What are oceans, frozen freshwater, and liquid freshwater?
A different term for lines of longitude
What are Meridians?
The sliding motion where one tectonic plate moves along another plate
What is Transform Motion?
These two oceans connect at the Panama Canal
What are the Atlantic and the Pacific?
Air pressure at sea level
What is 15lbs (14.7)?
This cloud is a sign of a thunderstorm
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
The mineral our bodies need to stay healthy
What are essential minerals?
A water source that has a constant path to the surface of the earth
What is a spring?
The only planet we know has life
What is Earth?
The number of revolutions of the earth around the sun in one year
What is one?
The three main parts of the geosphere
What are the crust, the mantle, and the core?
The abbreviations used for before and after 12pm
What are AM and PM?
The seven continents
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?
This Pole has glaciers
What is the South Pole?
This is a measure of how much stuff is in a certain space
What is density?
This causes high air pressure
What is cool air sinking?
This converts or fixes nitrogen
What is bacteria?
Science can only study this, not the Creator
What is Creation?
The type of galaxy we live in
What is Spiral?
This causes the seasons
What is the earth's tilt on it's axis?
The largest of the spheres other than the magnetosphere
What is the Geosphere?
Another name for the antimeridian
What is the International Date Line?
The three stages of the rock cycle
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
When ice breaks off of a glacier.
What is Calving?
This color of light contains all the colors
What is white light?
This attracts lightning away from important things
What is a lightning rod?
The biggest threat to the water cycle
What is Pollution?
Who are farmers?