Maps & Time Zones
General ESS
Minerals
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Space
100
Imaginary lines that cross the globe in a north-south direction.
What is longitude?
100
An equation where the number of atoms of each element is equal on both sides of the equation.
What is a balanced equation?
100
A naturally occuring, inorganic solid with specific chemical composition and crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
100
A measure of how easily a mineral can be abraded or scratched.
What is hardness?
100
The evidence that the universe is expanding away from us.
What is redshift?
200
There are 24 of these.
What are time zones?
200
A solution with a pH of less than 7.
What is an acid?
200
A mineral that contains silicon and oxygen.
What is a silicate?
200
Waxy, dull, and silky are types of this.
What is non-metallic luster?
200
A group of 40 galaxies that includes the Milky Way.
What is the Local Group?
300
A division of degrees of latitude or longitude.
What is a minute?
300
A solution with a pH of higher than 7.
What is a base?
300
Silver, gold, and copper have this appearance in common.
What is metallic luster?
300
The property of breaking with rough or jagged edges.
What is fracture?
300
Type of tide that occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are not aligned.
What is a neap tide?
400
A flat map where the upper and lower portions are greatly distorted.
What is a mercator projection?
400
Igneous rocks form and crystallize when this cools below the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
The breaking of a mineral in one or more flat planes.
What is cleavage?
400
The color of a mineral when it is broken up and powdered on a plate.
What is streak?
400
The dark colored flat valleys on the Moon.
What are maria?
500
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaskan Hawaiian-Aleutian
What are the time zones of the U.S.?
500
A satellite used to map the sea surface height.
What is the OSTM/Jason-2 Satellite?
500
The ratio of the weight of a substance to the weight of an equal volume of water.
What is specific gravity?
500
The group which 96% of the minerals in the Earth's crust belong to.
What are silicates?
500
23.5 degrees
What is the angle of the tilt of the Earth's axis?
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