All About Earth
What are the two types of Natural Resources? Then give me ONE example of each.
Non renewable and renewable
Non Renewable: coal, fossil fuels, minerals
Renewable: Animals, trees, wind, water, solar
Nucleus, Electron, Proton, and neutrons.
How many stages are there in the plant cycle?
There are 4.
What are the 8 planets in our solar system?
M.V.E.M.J.S.U.N
Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
How do sound and light travel?
In waves.
What is Pangea and what caused it?
Pangea is a theory that at one time all the continents were attached but separated over time because of the movements of tectonic plates.
What is the periodic table? How is the periodic table set up?
A system for arranging the chemical elements. It's set up by order of atomic number and type of element.
What are the two types of Metamorphosis we discussed in class?
How many phases of the moon are there?
There are eight.
New, Full, Waning and Waxing Gibbous, Waning and Waxing crescent.
What are the two types of energy we have discussed?
Potential and Kinetic Energy.
What are the layers of the earth?
What are the states three states of matter we discussed?
Liquid, gas, solid.
What's the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food chain is one flow of an energy transfer process in an ecosystem. A food web is multiple food chains together in one ecosystem.
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere.
Soundwaves can show us what?
The pitch, frequency, and volume.
Chemical, biological, physical (Mechanical)
What is the difference between chemical and physical changes?
Physical changes are something we can see by breaking, tearing, etc. Chemical properties they can only be seen when it is having a reaction to something. For example gas and fire.
What is pollination?
Pollination is how flowers reproduce. Where pollen is moved from the anther to the stigma.
What galaxy do we live in?
The Milky Way Galaxy.
What are the types of energy we have discussed?
Sound, chemical, light, thermal, electrical, mechanical.
Weathering (breaks it), Erosion (takes it), Deposition (drops it)
Plasma
Freshwater, Marine water, grassland, forest, tundra, desert.
What are the characteristics of the 4 most outer planets?
They are all gaseous, cold, large diameter.
What are the parts of a sound wave?
Crest, trough, amplitude, wavelength.