Miscellaneous
Rocks
Natural Resources/Views of Earth
Motions of Sun, Moon, and Earth
Weather/Climate
100
Why we can see the Moon from Earth and why we see different portions of the Moon throughout the month.
What is the Moon reflects the light given off from the Sun and the Moon revolves around the Earth?
100
All rocks are made up of these.
What are minerals?
100
Three nonrenewable resources that are called fossil fuels.
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
100
This force keeps the Moon orbiting the Earth and the Earth orbiting the Sun.
What is gravity?
100
The conditions of the atmosphere from season to season and year to year at a certain location.
What is climate?
200
In layers of the Earth's crust, I would find the oldest fossil here and the youngest fossil here.
What is oldest at the bottom of the layers and youngest at the top of the layers?
200
The three classes of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
200
An increase in the use of these has contributed to global warming.
What is fossil fuels?
200
The motion of Earth around the Sun.
What is the Earth's revolution?
200
The two weather symbols shown on the board.
What are fronts, and a hurricane?
300
The process that breaks down rocks on Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
300
How rocks are classified.
What is by how they are formed?
300
Two examples of renewable energy sources.
What are solar energy, wind energy, or hydroelectric energy?
300
The approximate time it takes the Full Moon to cycle to the next Full Moon.
What is a month?
300
The process that forms clouds.
What is condensation?
400
The freezing point of water using the Celsius temperature scale and the season we are usually in when water freezes.
What is 0 degrees and the winter season?
400
The type of rock that most fossils are found in and how that rock is formed.
What is sedimentary and compacting and cementing of sediment?
400
The names for the three parts of Earth - Water/Ice, Continental/Oceanic crust, and Gases that surround the planet.
What is Atmosphere (gases), Hydrosphere (water/ice), and Lithosphere (crust).
400
The approximate time it takes Earth to revolve HALFWAY around the Sun.
What is 6 months?
400
Earth's weather is mostly caused by this.
What is the uneven heating of Earth?
500
The crustal plates of Earth are moving because of this and when crustal plates move it causes this.
What is convection currents cause the movement of crustal plates and when they move they cause earthquakes?
500
How each class of rock forms.
What is Sedimentary = cementing/compacting of sediments Metamorphic = heat and pressure from deep in the Earth Igneous = cooling/hardening of lava or magma (volcanic activity)
500

The four layers of the Earth from outermost to innermost.

What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?

500

The Sun "appears" to rise in the East and set in the West because of this motion of Earth.

What is Earth's rotation?

500
The three processes that make of the water cycle and definitions of them.
What are Evaporation = changing of a liquid to a gas Condensation = changing of a gas to a liquid Precipitation = water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere
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