Water Cycle
Rocks and Minerals
Weather
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Solar System
100
How does Earth's supply of salt water compare to Earth's supply of fresh water?
Earth has a lot more salt water than fresh water.
100
Type of property of minerals the Mohs scale measures.
What is the hardness?
100
Thunderstorms and tornadoes are two types of these:
What is severe weather?
100
The most common way that an earthquake changes landforms.
What is it shifts the land?
100
The center of our solar system made of helium and hydrogen.
What is the Sun?
200
The process that changes water vapor into clouds or fog.
What is evaporation?
200
Formed by layers of sediment that are squeezed and stuck together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
The differences in air temperature causes this to occur
What is convection currents?
200
The process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
200
The shape of the path in which the planets orbit around the Sun.
What is an ellipse?
300
Water that falls from the clouds as rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
300
Formed when melted rock cools and hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
300
Weather that can cause damage.
What is severe weather?
300
When rocks are broken into smaller pieces by wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
300
An object which orbits another object in the solar system.
What is a satellite, or moon?
400
The process by which water vapor changes into clouds or fog.
What is condensation?
400
Formed by great amounts of high heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
Severe weather that is a part of the water cycle.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
Does NOT cause a fast change to Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
400
The force responsible for holding the planets in their orbits around the sun.
What is gravitational pull?
500
The repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms.
What is the water cycle?
500
Type of rocks formed by weathering of a rock.
What is sedimentary?
500
A spinning column of air caused by a change or speed, of direction of wind in a storm.
What is a tornado?
500
Happens to a rock during a windstorm where sand and dust hit the rock with great force and bits and pieces break off.
What is weathering?
500
A huge ball of very hot gas that gives off energy.
What is a star, or the Sun
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