Chemistry
Geology
Weather
Astronomy
Vocabulary
100
The smallest substance in an Element. The building blocks of life.
What is an atom?
100
Type of plate not containing land.
What is oceanic plate?
100
The winds blow from......
What is high to low?
100
When its winter in the North, its ____ in the South.
What is summer?
100
How tightly packed atoms are.
What is Density?
200
A phase of matter with a definite shape and volume.
What is solid?
200
The law stating the oldest rocks are at the bottom.
What is the Law of Superposition.
200
The layer of atmosphere we live in.
What is troposphere?
200
The number of phases the moon has.
What is eight?
200
Anything that contains mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
300
A mixture that has a change in color, temperature or smell.
What is a chemical change?
300
When two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
300
Name three types of heat transfer.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection?
300
The most powerful type of ray in the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is gamma ray?
300
Gravity and inertia keep this stable.
What is orbit?
400
Nothing lost or gained in this type of system.
What is closed system?
400
When one tectonic plate goes under another plate.
What is subduction?
400
As altitude increases pressure _____.
What is decreases?
400
The very beginning of a stars life cycle.
What is a nebula?
400
Testing a minerals powder color by rubbing it on a piece of porcelain.
What is streak?
500
Any single type of matter that CANNOT be seperated physically.
What is pure substance?
500
The process of rock sediment getting pressed and cemented together.
What is lithification?
500
The air mass that greatly effects OUR weather.
What is prevailing westerlies?
500
The type of galaxy we live in.
What is spiral?
500
How a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
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