Spring Semester Review-8th grade in TX

RMIVUXG

100

The type of EM waves with the least amount of energy

What are Radio Waves?

200

This type of wave might have made the Incredible Hulk green but in real life, it would turn your organs to mush.

What are Gamma Rays/Gamma Waves?

300

The type of EM waves that make up the rainbow or ROYGBIV

What is visible light?

400

The shortest wave in a rainbow

What is violet light? / What is purple light?

500

These have a little more energy than the light we can see & they help make vitamin D with a little help from the sun

What are Ultraviolet Waves/Ultraviolet Rays?

All Stars

100

The name of our star

The Sun/Sol

200

This is a baby star/protostar "nursery"

What is a nebula?

300

These really bright stars are fairly "cool" & are found in the top right corner of the HR diagram

What are Supergiants?

400

This red star is found in the constellation Orion. It's "easy to see" why they borrowed the sound of its name for a crazy 80s horror movie.

What is Betelgeuse?

500

Absolute Magnitude

What is brightness?

Sun/Earth/Moon

100

The tilt causes this

What are seasons?

200

It equals one revolution around the sun

What is a year?

300

These are caused by the sun's uneven heating of the earth

What are convection currents/winds/ocean currents?

400

The sun gives energy to help producers perform this chemical process

What is photosynthesis?

500

True or False: The distance of the earth from the sun determines the seasons & our temperatures.

False; The tilt is definitely the reason for the seasons. The earth is actually closer to the sun during the Northern Hemisphere's winter.

Lunar Labels

100

This phase is seen by all

What is a full moon?

200

Equals 1 revolution of the moon around the earth

What is a month?

300

Gravitational pull on the earth's surface creates these

What are tides?

400

If the moon's light is increasing, it is said to be doing this

What is waxing?

500

The times of a month when the moon is in the 1st or 3rd quarter the tides are called

What are neap tides?

Random Earth

100

The land was called this when it was only one piece a LONG time ago.

What is Pangea?

200

When two air masses meet it's called this

What is a front?

300

These 2 things determine climate...

What are precipitation & temperature?

400

Subduction of one plate under the other happens here

What is at a convergent boundary?

500

The reason for volcanoes

What is heat & pressure under the crust?

What is weakness in the earth's crust at a plate boundary?