Earth’s Revolution and Seasons
🌍 $100 – The Earth takes approximately this many days to complete one revolution around the Sun.
🌍 $100 – What is 365.25 days?
🌊 $100 – Tides are primarily caused by the gravitational pull of this celestial body.
🌊 $100 – What is the Moon?
🌎 $100 – The layer of gases surrounding Earth is called what?
🌎 $100 – What is the atmosphere?
🔥 $100 – The outermost layer of Earth is called what?
🔥 $100 – What is the crust?
🪨 $100 – Name the three main types of rocks.
🪨 $100 – What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
🌍 $200 – The tilt of Earth’s axis is responsible for what natural phenomenon?
🌍 $200 – What are the seasons?
🌊 $200 – What are the two types of tides that occur each day?
🌊 $200 – What are high tide and low tide?
🌎 $200 – The sphere that includes all living things on Earth.
🌎 $200 – What is the biosphere?
🔥 $200 – The thickest layer of Earth, located beneath the crust.
🔥 $200 – What is the mantle?
🪨 $200 – This type of rock forms from cooled magma or lava.
🪨 $200 – What is an igneous rock?
🌍 $300 – When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, what season is it experiencing?
🌍 $300 – What is summer?
🌊 $300 – The highest high tides and lowest low tides occur during which type of tide?
🌊 $300 – What is a spring tide?
🌎 $300 – The movement of water through the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere is known as what?
🌎 $300 – What is the water cycle?
🔥 $300 – The layer of Earth that generates Earth’s magnetic field.
🔥 $300 – What is the outer core?
🪨 $300 – What process breaks down rocks into sediments?
🪨 $300 – What is weathering?
🌍 $400 – What are the two equinoxes called?
🌍 $400 – What are the spring (vernal) and fall (autumnal) equinoxes?
🌊 $400 – What moon phases cause spring tides?
🌊 $400 – What are new moon and full moon?
🌎 $400 – What is the frozen part of the hydrosphere called?
🌎 $400 – What is the cryosphere?
🔥 $400 – The two types of crust are called what?
🔥 $400 – What are oceanic crust and continental crust?
🪨 $400 – Sedimentary rocks are formed through these two processes.
🪨 $400 – What are compaction and cementation?
🌍 $500 – During which solstice does the Northern Hemisphere experience the longest day of the year?
🌍 $500 – What is the summer solstice?
🌊 $500 – What is the name of the tide that occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon form a right angle?
🌊 $500 – What is a neap tide?
🌎 $500 – How do Earth’s spheres interact during a volcanic eruption?
🌎 $500 – Magma from the geosphere erupts from a volcano, releasing gases into the atmosphere, which affects living organisms in the biosphere and nearby bodies of water in the hydrosphere.
🔥 $500 – What is the difference between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere?
🔥 $500 – The lithosphere is the rigid outer layer, including the crust and upper mantle, while the asthenosphere is the semi-fluid layer beneath it that allows tectonic plates to move.
🪨 $500 – What process turns sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock?
🪨 $500 – What is heat and pressure?