Atmosphere and Matter
The attraction of two atoms for a shared pair of electrons that holds the atoms together is this type of bond.
What is Covalent?
Minerals that contain silicon and oxygen.
What are Silicates?
A testable explanation of a situation that can be supported or disproved by careful procedures.
What is an Hypothesis?
The location of volcanoes is determined mostly by this.
What is Plate Tectonics?
This is the name of Merida's horse in Pixar's "Brave".
Who is Angus?
Matter is anything that has these two things?
What is Volume and Mass?
This is when water droplets combine to form larger water droplets.
What is Coalescence?
The transfer of heat energy in a fluid through circulation of heat currents of heated particles.
What is Convection?
Volcanoes, deep sea trenches and mountains form here.
What is along Plate Boundaries?
This is Winnie the Pooh's favorite thing to eat.
What is honey?
This layer of the atmosphere is where the Ozone layer is found.
What is the Stratosphere?
This is the boundary that separates two opposing air masses.
What is a Front?
This is when energy is transferred by two objects touching.
What is Conduction?
A region where two plates slide horizontally past each other.
What is a Transform Boundary?
The name of the bearded lady in "The Greatest Showman".
What is Lettie?
These types of cloud produces precipitation.
What are "Nimbus" or "Nimbo" clouds?
This type of rock forms when magma cools and crystallizes on Earth's surface.
What is Extrusive?
The factor that is changed by the experimenter.
What is the Independent Variable?
The theory that explains how new oceanic crust is formed at ocean ridges, slowly moved away from ocean ridges, and destroyed at deep-sea trenches.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
The character in "The Return of the Jedi" who says, "It's a trap!".
Who is Admiral Ackbar?
Earth's weather occurs here because it contains almost all atmosphere's water vapor and the temperature decreases with altitude.
What is the Troposphere?
This is the name of the classification system that is based on the average monthly values of temperature and precipitation.
What is the Koppen classification system?
An explanation based on many observations during repeated investigations
What is Scientific Theory?
The proposal that continental and oceanic crust move as enormous slabs and shape Earth's surface.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
The keeper of the Green Time Stone/Gem in Marvel's Cinematic Universe.
Who is Dr. Strange?