Astronomy
The luminosity of the sun.
What is 1?
The four seasons.
What are summer, fall, winter, and spring?
The two ways that minerals could break.
What is cleavage and fracture?
The four agents of erosion.
What are water, wind, glaciers, and gravity?
The first period.
What is the Cambrian period?
The process that stars use to create energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
Degree measure that is the tilt of earth axis.
What is 23.5°?
The difference between a rock and a mineral.
What are the naturally occurring building blocks and the things built by them?
The two types of sorting with water erosion.
What is horizontal and vertical sorting?
The epoch when humans first appeared.
What is Pleistocene?
The name of the star that is aligned with earth’s axis.
What is polaris?
Season in the Northern hemisphere when the earth is at perihelion.
What is winter?
The chemical composition of potassium feldspar.
What is KAlSi3O8?
Three factors that affect wind erosion.
What are wind speed, vegetation, and sediment size?
The name of the NYS fossil.
What is Eurypterus?
The name of the man who made the red shift theory?
Who is Edwin Hubble?
Days in the lunar cycle.
What are 29.5 days?
The type of rock that has a coarse texture, and contains plagioclase feldspar, biotite, and amphibole.
What is igneous rock?
The type of erosion that causes sediments to be layered in different directions.
What is wind?
The age (period) of the most dominant bedrock found in the Erie-Ontario Lowland.
What is Silurian?
The name of the arm that our solar system is located on.
What is the Orion arm?
Between what two phases are the Spring tides?
What is full moon and new moon.
The name of a mineral that has cleavage, non-metallic luster, has a hardness less than (equal to) a fingernail, and is colorless to white.
What is halite?
All the four depositional features of glaciers.
What are drumlins, kettle lakes, moraines, and erratics?
The type of bedrock found at 44°N and 75°W.
What is metamorphic rock (quartzite, gneiss,marble)?