Planet Earth
Origins & Glaciers
Origins & Glaciers
Three biblical events that greatly affected the surface of the earth.
What is Creation, Fall and Flood?
Three types of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic?
A rise in land with steep sides going up to a summit.
What is a mountain?
If a star has a blue color, is it hotter or cooler than the sun?
What is hotter?
The outermost part of our atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
Three attributes of the earth that make it just right for life to occur here.
What is distance from the sun, tilt of axis, properties and abundance of water, oxygen, nitrogen ration, size provides just the right amount of gravity?
Three ingredients needed to change igneous or sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock.
What is heat, pressure and time?
A series of mountain peaks in a given area.
What is a mountain range?
The main elements found in the sun are.
What is hydrogen or helium?
Water that is leaving the atmosphere.
What is precipitation?
Three ways that geology affects your life.
What is minerals In food, anything made of metal, oil, anything made of plastic, soil to grow plants, caves to explore, etc?
A native mineral.
What is a mineral that has only one type of atom - pure element?
The name to the arera on earth’s surface above where an earthquake originates?
What is the epicenter?
Planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
What is Nimbus?
Two climate conditions required for an ice age.
What is wet winters and cool summers?
Common tests used to identify minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, crystal shape, hardness, and cleavage?
A crack in the earth’s crust resulting from an earthquake.
What is a fault?
When the moon is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun.
What is full?
The five oceans of the world.
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic (or Southern), Arctic Ocean?
Four main studies of earth science.
What is astronomy, meteorology, geology and hydrology?
Valuable minerals.
What is gold, silver, copper, and diamonds?
The difference between the elevation of a mountain and it’s actual height.
What is the elevation of the height of the summit above sea level and the actual height of the difference between the elevation of the summit and the elevation of the base of the mountain?
When the moon is on the same side of the earth as the sun.
What is new?
There is more oxygen in the ocean near the surface because of __________ growing there.