Solar System
Name the 2 planets that don't have any moons.
Mercury and Venus
What is a biome?
A biome is a large community of living things that are in a similar climate and zone.
What is a volcano?
A volcano is an opening in the earth's crust through which lava, volcanic ash, and gases escape.
What are the 4 seasons?
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Name 4 biomes.
Aquatic
Arctic
Desert
Grassland
Forest
Name a planet that has retrograde rotation.
Venus or Uranus
Which biome is the largest on planet Earth?
What percentage does it cover?
Aquatic covers about 70% of the Earth's surface.
Name the layers of the Earth.
Inner core
Outer core
Mantle
Crust
What are the stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Collection
What is water called when it is in the evaporation stage?
Vapor
This planet is known as Earth's twin.
Venus
What is topography?
Topography is the shape and dimension of the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
Magma is liquid rock that comes from deep beneath the earth’s crust.
What is an orbit?
What is a cartographer?
A cartographer is a person who studies the surface of the Earth and makes maps.
This divides the inner and outer planets.
Asteroid Belt
What is climate?
Climate is the average temperature for a given location over a period of time.
What is a tectonic plate?
Tectonic plates are like puzzle pieces of the Earth's crust that floats on the mantle of the Earth.
What causes erosion?
Rain, land, ice, wind.
What is an island?
An island is a smaller piece of land that is completely surrounded by a body of water on all sides.
Name all of the planets in order, starting closest to the sun.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiters
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Name the 3 ways an earthquake can occur.
When the tectonic plates
SLIDE
COLLIDE
or MOVE APART
What causes a tsumani?
A tsunami is a giant wave that is caused by movement and pressure (earthquakes) underwater on the bottom of the ocean.
What are the 3 main types of rocks from the rock cycle?
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic
What are 4 layers of the Earth's atmosphere?
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere