What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
100
What is the name of fuel that cannot be replaced once it is used up?
What is fossil fuels
100
Name the three main spheres (water, air, and earth)
What is hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere
100
Which technology is used to study planets. It is also used to watch tv.
What is satellites
100
What type of thermal energy can travel through air or space?
What is radiation
200
What is the object in our solar system that is the biggest and has the most gravitational pull?
What is the Sun
200
What is potential energy? Give two examples.
What is energy of position. Examples may be: ball on the grass, string wound up in a yo-yo, compressed spring in a toy
200
The Rock Cycle is when igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks change form. In which sphere does this occur?
What is the geosphere
200
What is the technology used to study the strength of earthquakes
What is seismograph
200
What type of energy is transferred by touch. Give an example.
What is conduction. Examples can be a hot stove and hand, a spoon in hot soup, a piece of chocolate in your hand, etc.
300
As you travel farther into space, what happens to the temperature on the planets?
What is it gets colder the farther out you go.
300
What is kinetic energy? Give two examples.
What is energy of motion. Examples can be anything that moves, such as a car, bike, child swinging on a swing
300
Explain the difference between the geosphere and hydrosphere
What is geosphere is the earth and hydrosphere is the water
300
What is the technology that can travel through air and can track airplanes, weather, and a car's speed?
What is radar
300
What type of thermal energy travels through a fluid? Give an example.
What is convection. Examples can be a volcanic vent, a heater, a light bulb warming the air, etc.
400
Explain why Earth is the only planet in our solar system that can sustain life. You must give three reasons.
What is it the right distance away, it has liquid water, and it has a protective atmosphere
400
What kind of energy is produced by water? By the Sun? By heat from the Earth?
What is hydroelectric, solar, and geothermal
400
Which spheres could be affected by a hurricane?
What is atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
400
What is the technology used to locate objects on the ocean floor? What kind of waves are used in this technology?
What is sonar/sound waves
400
What kind of thermal energy causes sunburns?
What is radiation
500
Compare the inner planets and outer planets
What is inner planets are rocky, dense, and smaller than outer planets. They are before the Asteroid Belt. Outer planets are after the Asteroid belt, larger, and less dense/made of gas.
500
What is chemical energy? Give two examples.
What is energy stored for fuel, such as batteries, food, and gas/logs
500
How many layers are in our atmosphere?
What is 5. The mesosphere, troposphere, ozone layer, thermosphere, and stratosphere
500
What is a space probe and how is it used?
What is an unmanned probe sent to study planets. It can take pictures and collect samples.
500
Explain the difference between radiation, convection, and conduction
What is radiation can travel trough air or space, convection occurs in a fluid, and conduction occurs through touch