Gravity and Space
Types of Energy
Ecosystem Interactions
Energy, Matter, and Life
Evolving Earth
100
This term is used to describe any object that revolves around a larger object in space
What is a satellite?
100
This type of energy is known as the "energy of motion"
What is kinetic energy?
100
Daily Multiplyer - 100 each
Name up to 6 different Earth's spheres.
Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, Geosphere, Magnetosphere
100
This process details the conversion of water and carbon dioxide using light energy into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
100
This is the term used to described any preserved remains, impressions, or trace of any once-living organism.
What is a fossil?
200
These are the two factors that affect gravitational attraction
mass and distance
200
This type of energy is defined as energy stored in a system due to its position.
What is potential energy?
200
This type of gradient describes the increase of temperature as you move deeper into the Earth.
What is geothermal gradient?
200
This term is used to describe the removal and movement of rock by the action of water, ice, wind, or gravity.
What is erosion?
200
A catastrophic event can have a large-scale impact on the biodiversity on Earth. This type catastrophic event led to the extinction of dinosaurs.
What is an asteroid impact?
300
The center of mass of the solar system is located at the center of this star.
What is the sun?
300
When an explosive charge in a cannon causes a cannonball to fly out of the cannon, this type of potential energy is converted into kinetic energy
What is chemical potential energy?
300
This ecological effect happens when communities form in a previously uninhabited area.
What is primary succession?
300
This term is used to describe the chemical breakdown of rock, like with acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
300
Due to chemical composition, density differences and temperature differences, this part of Earth became separated into distinct layers.
What is Earth's interior?
400
This feature of the planet is the primary cause of seasons on Earth
What is Earth's axial tilt?
400
The gravitational potential energy of an object can be calculated using the object's mass (m), the acceleration due to gravity (g), and this type of measurement.
What is height?
400
This trophic level is found at the bottom of the energy pyramid as they are the source of energy for every other living thing.
What are producers?
400
In the water cycle, this is where does most of the precipitation falls into.
What is the ocean?
400
The arms of humans, cats, whales and bats represent this type of structure in different species.
What are homologous structures?
500
You are located in this type of field when the center of gravity is equal to the center of mass
What is a uniform gravitational field?
500
Kinetic energy is represented by this equation that explains it is proportional to half of the mass of an object multiplied by the square of its velocity.
500
When the growth of a population stabilizes, then this indicates that a population has reached this ecological limit.
What is carrying capacity?
500
Plants are considered to be this type of organism because the are able to provide food for themselves and consumers.
What are autotrophs?
500
Alfred Wegener noticed that the continental coastlines appear to fit together, which led him to develop this hypothesis.
What is continental drift?
600
This law of planetary motion explains that a planet's orbit is elliptical, with the sun at one focus of the ellipse
What is Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion
600
This is the total kinetic energy of an object at rest.
What is zero?
600
The biomes on Earth are defined primarily by these two climate factors.
What is temperature and precipitation?
600
This type of cellular respiration takes place without the use of oxygen.
What is anaerobic respiration?
600
This type of evidence and geologic feature supports the theory of plate tectonics by demonstrating that the oceanic crust is moving apart at a divergent plate boundary.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?