Earth's Unique Properties
Goldilocks Zone
Moon Phases
Tides & Eclipses
Seasons
Miscellaneous
100
This compound makes Earth unique among all the planets in our solar system
What is liquid water in large oceans?
Or What is liquid water?
100
This is another name for the Goldilocks Zone.
What is the Habitable Zone?
100
These moon phases occur at points B & D.
What are the crescents?
Allowed: waxing and waning crescents
100
What is created by the pull of the Moon's gravity on Earth's water?
What are tides?
100
Name the order of the seasons starting with Winter.
What is winter, spring, summer, fall?
100
Two answers required:
A. 24 hours is one _________________ of Earth on its axis.
B. 365 days is one _________________ of Earth around the Sun.
What is A. rotation and B. revolution?
200
The age of Earth
A. 4.5 million years old
B. 4.5 billion years old
C. 45 million years old
D. 13.5 billion years old
What is "B. 4.5 billion years old"?
200
These two planets are also found in the Goldilocks Zone. Name 1 of them.
What are Venus and Mars?
200
This is the term for the series of moon phases between the New Moon and Full Moon when the light is bright on the right.
What is Waxing?
Allowed: waxing moons
200
This space object is between the Earth and Sun during a solar eclipse.
What is the Moon?
200
These three properties of Earth cause the seasons. Name 2 of them.
What are the tilt of the axis, curvature of the Earth, and the angle the sunlight hits Earth.
200
Water droplets sticking to plant leaves is an example of ____________________.
What is adhesion?
300
This consists of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, methane, water vapor, and carbon dioxide.
What is Earth's atmosphere?
300
This property of all matter acts everywhere in the universe and keeps Earth's orbit in the Goldilocks Zone.
What is gravity?
300
The Moon shown below occurs between these two moon phases. Name both of them.
What is Full and Third Quarter?
300
These are found on the same side and opposite side of the Earth as the pull of the Moon's gravity. This creates a bulge that lines up with the Moon.
What are high tides?
300
Earth's tilt affects these two hemispheres. Name them both.
What are Northern and Southern?
300
Day and Night are caused by Earth's ________________.
What is rotation?
400
Earth has this which protects us from harmful solar radiation but Mars lost its billions of years ago.
What is a Magnetosphere?
400
These 3 things are possible because of the Goldilocks Zone. Name 2 of them.
What are life, liquid water, moderate temperatures?
Also allowed: "just right" distance
400
This determines how long one cycle of the phases of the Moon takes.
What is revolution around the Earth?
400
Special high tides where the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up are called __________________ tides.
What is Spring?
400
Earth's axis will tilt ____________________ the Sun when the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing summer and the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing winter.
What is toward?
400
Ice floats on water because it is _________ dense than liquid water.
What is less?
500
Earth has something that all other planets do not which can only exist because of the atmosphere, magnetosphere, and liquid water in its oceans. This unique feature is _________________.
What is life?
500
Water exists as a compound because this causes two different elements to combine and create a new substance.
What is chemical bonding?
Allowed: bonding, bonds, a bond, a chemical bond
500
This picture has an error. Describe it.
What is the Earth doesn't orbit the Moon?
500
Special high tides that form when the Sun, Earth, and Moon form a 900 angle are called _______________ tides.
What is neap?
500
This season is occurring at point B.
What is Fall?
500
This moon phase is responsible for a solar eclipse because it is in between the Sun and Earth.
What is New Moon?