Earth's Place in the Universe
What causes day and night on Earth?
What is Earth's rotation?
Which process of the water cycle describes water vapor cooling into liquid droplets?
What is condensation?
Which type of rock forms when melted rock cools and becomes solid?
Which Earth sphere includes all living things and their interactions
What is biosphere?
What tool is best for observing distant galaxies and stars?
What is the telescope?
Which model placed Earth at the center of the universe?
What is geocentric model?
Which instrument measures air pressure?
What is barometer?
Which process describes the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces by wind, water, or ice?
What is weathering?
Which of Earth's spheres includes all water on Earth?
What is hydrosphere?
Give an example of a non-renewable resource.
What is oil, coal, natural gas, fossil fuels?
What happens during a solar eclipse?
What is the moon passes between the Sun and Earth casting a shadow on Earth?
A cold front most often brings which change in weather?
What are abrupt changes in weather like thunderstorms?
Which rock type often forms from layers of sediment pressed together over time?
What is sedimentary?
Which of Earth's spheres includes all frozen water on Earth?
What is cryosphere?
Give an example of a renewable resource.
What causes seasons on Earth?
What is Earth's tilt?
What causes convection currents in the air or water?
What is warm dense fluid rising and cold dense fluid sinking?
What are the three main types of tectonic plate boundaries?
What is convergent, divergent, and transform?
Give an example to shows how human activity can change the hydrosphere.
What is (an example showing how humans activity can impact Earth's oceans, lakes, streams, etc.).
What is a constructive process?
What is a process that builds up new landforms?
Name the phases of the moon in order.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd quarter, waning crescent?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is the curve that happens to wind and water on Earth because Earth is spinning on its axis?
Give one piece of evidence that supports the idea that continents were once joined as Pangea.
What is: continents fitting like puzzle pieces, matching fossilized species across continents, identical rock formations/mountain chains on different continents, or ancient climate indicators (glaciers in tropics).
Give an example to shows how human activity can change the geosphere.
What is (an example showing how humans activity can impact Earth's surface).
What is a deconstructive process?
What is a process that tears down new landforms?