Mr. Mark
Branch of the military in which he served
What is the Marine Corps?
What two factors keep the Sahara Desert hot?
1. Distance from the ocean and very long summer days
2. High pressure air masses and direct sunlight
What is High pressure air masses and direct sunlight?
Amount of the Earth's surface that is covered by rain forest.
1. 5 Percent
2. 25 Percent
What is 5 percent?
Subduction zones occur at the boundaries between:
1. Tectonic plates
2. Oceans
What are tectonic plates?
The Photosphere refers to the sun's
1. Surface
2. Atmosphere
What is the surface?
Number of deployments to Iraq
What is 2?
A desert's climate is most often determined by it's...
1) Latitude
2) Size
What is latitude
Where tropical rain forest located
1. Near the equator
2. On every continent
What is near the equator?
This may happen if a major volcanic eruption happened each year.
1. Global temperatures may get cooler by several degrees.
2. Global temperatures may rise by several degrees.
What is Global temperatures may get cooler by several degrees?
The temperature of the Sun's core is
1. Millions degrees Celsius
2. Thousands degrees Celsius
What is Millions of degrees Celsius
Mr. Mark's favorite food
What is a taco?
Which continent is virtually all desert?
1. Africa
2. South America
3. Asia
4. Antarctica
What is Antarctica?
What is caused by two tectonic plates slide past each other or colliding?
What is an Earthquake?
Where might you find hotspot volcanoes.
1. Mid Ocean Ridges
2. The Ring of Fire
3. Neither the Mid Ocean Ridges or The Ring of Fire
What is Neither the Mid Ocean Ridges or the Ring of Fire.
These are the two elements that make up the sun.
1. Hydrogen and Helium
2. Hydrogen and Oxygen
Name of Mr. Mark's first dog
Who is Darth Vader?
Compared to the Gobi Desert, the Sahara Desert is
1. Hotter
2. Cooler
What is cooler?
The layer of the rain forest that receives the most sunlight.
1. Canopy
2. Emergent Layer
What is the emergent layer?
A country that lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
1. Japan
2. Norway
What is Japan?
This happens during nuclear fusion.
1. Atoms split apart
2. Atoms combine
What is Atoms combine?
College Mr. Mark graduated from
What is Ashford University?
Most animals in hot deserts can't:
1. Drink liquid water
2. Sweat
3. Sleep
4. Walk
What is sweat?
The canopy contains the most of this in the rain forest
1. Animals
2. Fungi
What are animals?
Which of these is true?
1. Dormant volcanoes can NEVER erupt again.
2. Dormant volcanoes haven't erupted in a long time.
What is Dormant volcanoes haven't erupted in a long time?
The sun is considered a red giant star
1. True
2. False
False : What is a "Main Sequence Star".