Blinded By The Light
What is the imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the poles?
What is the equator?
List a nonrenewable energy source
What is
Erosion and deposition play roles in the formation of what kind of rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
Where do most of Earth's volcanoes occur?
What is along diverging and converging plates (the boundaries between tectonic plates)?
Describe the purpose of chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell?
What is chromosomes allow DNA to be accurately copied during cell divisions. This ensures that our inner workings proceed smoothly and efficiently.
Electricity produced by flowing water can be referred to as?
What is hydroelectric power?
The major agent of erosion that has shaped Earth's land surface is?
What is moving water?
What is most metamorphic rock forms below the surface of the earth?
What is subduction?
What is the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate?
How many chromosomes would be present in a normal human liver cell?
What is 46 chromosomes?
The splitting of an atom's nucleus into two smaller nuclei is called?
What is nuclear fission?
Why is soil one of the Earth's most valuable resources?
What is soil acts as a water filter and a growing medium; provides habitat for billions of organisms, contributing to biodiversity; and supplies most of the antibiotics used to fight diseases.
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume?
What is stress?
Earth's lithosphere is broken into separate sections called?
What is tectonic plates?
The presence of which geological feature(s) provides the best evidence that glaciers once covered an area?
What is U-shaped valleys?
On a topographic map, what connects points of equal elevation?
What is contour lines?
The energy stored in coal came from
What is The Sun?
Since coal comes from plants, and plants get their energy from the sun, the energy in coal also came from the sun. The coal we use today took millions of years to form.
The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks and triggers an earthquake is called?
What is the focus?
What are the four main layers that make up the Earth?
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
Lichens are symbiotic organisms made of green algae and fungi. What do the green algae supply to the fungi in this symbiotic relationship?
What is food?
A substance that provides a form of energy for our everyday life as the result of a chemical change is
What is Fuel?
The height of an ocean wave is dependent on?
What is wave height is affected by wind speed, wind duration
The size of mineral's crystals depends on?
What is the rate of crystal formation and location where they are formed?
The slower the crystals are formed the larger the crystals that are formed. Crystals that are formed near or on the surface tend to crystalize faster and therefore are usually smaller. Crystals deeper in the crust tend to crystalize slower and therefore are larger.
All seismic waves carry the energy released in an earthquake, where does this energy travel?
What is away from the focus, through Earth's interior, and across the surface?
What is the role of a mushroom in an ecosystem? Be specific!
What is mushrooms are decomposers because like other fungi, they break down dead and decaying matter to make their own food. Mushrooms make a network of mycelium that extends deep into the soil to decompose dead matter with their special enzymes, recycling nutrients and making them available for plants.