Earth in the Universe
This statement is True or False: Sunlight that hits Earth's surface straight on is said to hit Earth indirectly.
What is False?
This statement is either True or False: Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
What is True?
This is considered the habitable zone within a solar system.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
This is the large time unit used to describe Earth's life.
What is an Eon?
This term means the death of an entire species.
What is Extinction?
This is the full name of DNA.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
These are the two types of mechanical energy.
What are Kinetic and Potential energy.
This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Summer Solstice
There are this many planets in our Solar System.
What is 8?
This is the most massive planet with our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
There are this many eons in Earth's history.
What is four?
The human population began to rapidly rise during this time 300 years ago.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is type of scientist studies viruses.
What is a virologist?
These are the two types of potential energy.
What are Graviational and Elastic potential energy?
What are Solar and Lunar eclipses?
This is one of the four distinct stages of our solar systems formation. (Name any one of the four.)
What is the Molecular Cloud?
What is Formation of the Sun?
What is Protoplanetary Disk?
What is Evolution of Planets?
This is the number of rocky planets within our solar system.
What is four?
Eons are subdivided to this unit.
What is an Era?
These are the four major negative environmental effects caused by the increased human population. (You may say only one).
What are increased demand on resources, increased energy demand, increased waste, and negative effects on other species?
This is a change or mistake in the nucleotide sequence of DNA or RNA.
What is a mutation?
Classical mechanics is a subfield of this type of science.
What is Physics?
This is the time in which the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
What is Solar Noon?
This is the fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
The four outer planets in our system are made of this type of material.
What is gas?
This is the name of three combined eons.
What is a "supereon"?
The Ozone Layer shield the Earth from this harmful thing.
What are ultraviolet (UV) waves?
This phenomenon describes a series of favorable mutations in a species.
What is evolution?
This is used to measure energy.
What is Joules?
This is the degree of Earth's tilt.
What is 23.5o?
Our Solar System was formed this many years ago.
What is 4.6 billion years?
This planet has the shortest year within our solar system.
What is Mercury?
Earth is this many billion years old.
What is 4.54 billion years old?
This is the chemical combination of ozone.
What is O3?
This type of mutagen usually causes cancer.
What is a carcinogen?
Describe the relationship between Kinetic and Potential Energy.
What is "The two forms of energy “trade-off” to maintain a constant, total energy of a system."
OR
What is "When potential energy is high, kinetic energy is low and vice versa."