The Earth and the Solar System
I am a large object orbiting a star
What is planet?
I am the most famous supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
A violent shaking of the ground
What is an Earthquake?
The daily environmental changes in a specific location or time period
What is Weather?
Natural fuel formed from the remains of living organisms
What are Fossil Fuels?
I am a mass that orbits around a planet
What is moon
I am a fossil that helps us date layers of rock.
What are Index Fossils?
A rising body of water that submerges normally dry land
What are floods?
The border between an advancing mass of cold air and a receding mass of warm air
What is a Warm Front?
Gases that trap the energy of the Sun and hold the heat it creates close to Earth
I hold celestial objects in orbit.
What is gravity?
I am the deepest part of the ocean
What are trenches?
Events in which molten rock spews out of the mantle as ash, lava, and gases
What are Volcanic Eruptions?
The border between an advancing mass of cold air and a receding mass of warm air
What is a Cold Front?
A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime
What are Renewables?
We are the inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
I am made of the crust and part of the mantle
What is Lithosphere?
Small pieces of rock, broken down by wind or water
What is Sediment?
The circulation of hot and cold matter
What is Convection?
Coal and Oil are both examples of this type of resource
What is Nonrenewable?
Tiny particles of matter floating in space
What is dust
The process in which a denser plate is pushed beneath a less dense plate
What is subduction?
The movement of these sediments to another place.
What is Erosion?
The average kinetic energy of the particles in a material
What is Temperature?
Any process that happens on Earth
What are Geoscience Processes?