Earth's History
Space Systems
Earth Systems
Weather + Climate
Human Impacts
100
The name of the super continent that geologists believe used to be what Planet Earth was
What is Pangea
100
This splits the Earth into the north and south hemispheres, while this splits the earth into the east and west hemispheres.
What is the equator and prime meridian
100
Minerals are
What are the building blocks of rocks
100
This is the difference between weather and climate
Weather is the specific conditions, short term, over a small area. Climate is long term, over a large area, and determine what plants and animals can survive there
100
This word describes stuff that has negative impacts to the planet, usually left by human activities.
What is pollution
200
The law that states that rocks are originally deposited in horizontal layers
What is superposition
200
These three things are what causes seasons
What is earth's tilt on its axis, spin on its axis, and revolution around the sun
200
This test determines the hardness of rocks
What is the streak test
200
This is where a maritime polar air mass likely formed.
What is over a cold ocean
200
This term describes the impact on earth left by humans
What is carbon footprint
300
The order of the layers from oldest to youngest
D,F,E,C,B,A
300
These two things determine the strength of gravitational attraction
What is mass and distance
300
Rocks, minerals, and the layers of the Earth are a part of which of Earth's systems? (Hint: the word looks like "------sphere")
What is the geosphere
300
This type of cloud is tall, dark, and will likely bring thunderstorms
What is a cumulonimbus cloud
300
These are formed by decayed plants and animals over millions of years and are nonrenewable
What are fossil fuels
400
The name and a quick description of the three types of plate boundaries
What is divergent pulls, convergent pushes, and transform slides
400
The order of the phases of the moon in order, beginning with New Moon
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, second quarter, waning crescent, new moon.
400
These are the six ways to identify a mineral
What are hardness, luster, color, streak, cleavage, fracture (also density would be accepted)
400
These instruments measure, in order, wind speed, wind direction, and air pressure
What is anemometer, wind vane, and barometer.
400
These are three specific ways that humans contribute to global warming
What are pollution, industrialization, urbanization, agriculture, etc. (Other answers are to be determined correct or incorrect by Ms. Corp!!!!)
500
The order in which the geological time scale is broken into, from longest to shortest
What are eons, eras, periods, epochs
500
The order of the planets starting closest to the sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
500
These are the five requirements for something to be considered a mineral
What are naturally occurring, solid, definite chemical composition, ordered atomic structure, inorganic
500
What is cold and stormy
500
This is the time period at which rapid destruction of the Earth began by humans.
What is the industrial revolution