Weather/Climate
The phenomenon that Earth is getting warmer due to human activity is called what
What is Climate change or global warming
What is the hardest mineral on earth
What is a diamond?
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean
What is the theory that explains the origins of the universe?
Big Bang Theory
What is the main gas responsible for trapping heat and causing the greenhouse effect?
What is Carbon Dioxide
Rocks constantly change by breaking, melting, or being pressed. What is this cycle called?
What is the Rock Cycle
What percent of the Earth is water?
About 70%
What period is famously known as the age of the dinosaurs?
What is The Jurassic period?
On a hot day, the air feels damp because it contains a lot of water vapor. What is this called?
What is humidity
Some rocks preserve the remains or imprints of ancient plants and animals. What are these called?
Fossils
What is the process that turns water into gas?
What is Evaporation?
How old is Earth, 4 billion or 4.5 billion years old?
approximately 4.5 billion years old
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
What is the softest mineral on Earth?
What is Talc?
What causes ocean tides?
What is the moon's gravity (and some of the sun)
What is the name of the most recent Supercontinent?
What is Pangea
What is the calm center of a hurricane called?
What is the eye
What type of rock forms from cooled magma?
Igneous rocks
What is the deepest known part of the Ocean?
What is Mariana's Trench
What is the only layer of the Earth that is liquid?
What is the Outer Core