Weather and Climate
$100 What is the measure of the amount of moisture in the air?
Answer: What is humidity?
$100: What is water that soaks into the ground called?
Answer: What is groundwater?
$100: What boundary occurs when two tectonic plates collide?
Answer: What is a convergent plate boundary?
$100: What type of organism breaks down dead material?
Answer: What is a decomposer?
$500: What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: What is a cheetah?
$200: What is the layer of gases surrounding Earth?
Answer: What is the atmosphere?
$200: What is it called when humans alter natural ecosystems?
Answer: What is human interaction?
$200: What type of rock forms from cooled magma?
Answer: What is igneous rock?
$200: What is a habitat where an animal lives?
Answer: What is an ecosystem?
$100: What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
Answer: What is approximately 71%?
$300: What is the term for rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Answer: What is precipitation?
$300: What process involves the breaking down of rocks?
Answer: What is weathering?
$300: What is the process of sediment being laid down called?
Answer: What is deposition?
$300: What is the role of a tertiary consumer in a food web?
Answer: What is to eat secondary consumers?
$200: A group of flamingos is called what?
Answer: What is a "flamboyance"?
$400: What is the average weather over a long period called?
Answer: What is climate?
$400: What is the movement of ocean water?
Answer: What is an ocean current?
$400: What is the theory that explains the movement of the Earth's plates?
Answer: What is plate tectonics?
$400: What is the relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed?
Answer: What is parasitism?
$300: Which planet has the largest volcano in the solar system?
Answer: What is Mars?
$500: What is the term for the weight of air pressing down on Earth?
Answer: What is air pressure?
$500: What is the name for the upper layer of the Earth where plants grow?
Answer: What is the crust?
$500: What is the process of one tectonic plate sliding under another called?
Answer: What is subduction?
$500: What term describes the variety of life in an ecosystem?
Answer: What is biodiversity?
$400: What animal can hold its breath for up to 90 minutes?
Answer: What is a whale?