Unit 1: Metric System
Unit 2: The Universe
Unit 3: The Solar System
Unit 4: The Solid Earth
Chance
100
The metric unit used to measure length.
What are meters?
100
The approximate age of the universe.
What is about 14 billion years?
100
The four terrestrial planets.
What are Venus, Mercury, Earth, and Mars?
100
A super landmass theory.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift and Pangea?
100
The Horizontal Lines where 0o is the Equator. Measure North and South on a map. Like a ladder.
What is latitude?
200
The metric unit used to measure mass.
What are grams?
200
The theory of the universe where everything burst into existence.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
200
Once accretion was finished, remaining gases experienced this.
Where they pushed out of the solar system by nuclear fusion?
200
3 pieces of evidence for continental drift.
What are:
Puzzle-like fit of the continents
Identical rocks found on different continents
Mountain Ranges continue on different continents
Fossils of same species found on different continents
Ancient Climates of certain continents are different than today.
200
The polarity of the North Pole on Earth.
What is Magnetic South?
300
In the metric system, the base unit of measurement for volume.
What are liters?
300
All stars begin their life cycle here.
What is a stellar nebula?
300
The density of a moon rock with a volume of 3 cm3 and a mass of 12 grams.
What is 4 g/cm3?
300
The 0o vertical line on a map, like the y-axis.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The moon phase is a small sliver in the sky, and is getting smaller from one night to the next.
What is a waning crescent?
400
The freezing point of water, in Celsius.
What is 0 degrees Celsius?
400
The process in which the sun's gravity fuses hydrogen and helium together to make energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
Jupiter's distance from the sun, 5.2 times further than Earth's distance. (In Astronomical Units)
What is 5.2 Astronomical Units (AU)?
400
A physical phenomenon resulting in attractive and repulsive forces between objects.
What is magnetism?
400
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries and how they move.
What are divergent, moving away from each other, convergent, moving towards each other, and transform, moving past each other?
500
16,093.0 meters changed to millimeters.
What is 16,093,000.0 millimeters?
500
The section of the HR diagram our sun is located.
What is main sequence?
500
The location in which the Northern Hemisphere experiences summer.
What is C?
500
The relationship between temperature and density.
What is, as temperature increases, molecules move faster and space between them increases, volume increases, and density decreases as temperature increases?
500
The density of a 160 gram rock with a volume of 40 cm3. AND the way we found the volume.
What is 4 g/cm3 AND a graduated cylinder to displace water?