General
Volcanoes & Weathering
Rocks, Earthquakes, & Mountains
The Oceans
Astronomy
100
One of the earth's four spheres that contains all living things.
What is the Biosphere?
100
Movement of magma through the Earth's Crust
What is Vulcanism?
100
When the movement of tectonic plates collide with each other, stress causes the rock to bend and form mountains
How are mountains formed?
100
The biggest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Credited with developing the first mathematical model of a heliocentric solar system
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
200
Must be included in a hypothesis.
What is an if/then statement?
200
These are the 2 types of weathering.
What is Mechanical and Chemical?
200
This is what the rock cycle is driven by.
What are Magma and Rain?
200
The percantage of the Earth's water that is fresh water.
What is 3%?
200
This man developed Copernicus's theory and improved the telescope, which helped in his astronomical observations.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
A series of steps designed to help solve problems & answer questions.
What is the Scientific Method?
300
The three types of volcanoes
What are cinder cone volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and composite volcanoes?
300
A giant wave cuased by an earthquake in the ocean.
What is a Tsunami?
300
Precipitation that does not inflitrate the ground or evaporate.
What is surface run-off?
300
The shape that planets and other celestial objects move around the sun.
What are elipses? / What is eliptical?
400
A pH of 9 is
What is basic?
400
The difference between quiet and explosive eruption.
What is lava flows freely from its crater in a quiet eruption, while in an explosive eruption the lava forecfully explodes with clouds and ash?
400
The point at which an earthquake starts.
What is an epicenter?
400
The period where precipitation is 70% lower than normal and the rate of evaporation is higher than normal.
What is a drought?
400
The giant anti-cyclone storm, akin to a very large hurricane, on Jupiter.
What is the Great Red Spot?
500
The type of map that includes contour lines to show the shape and elevation of an area.
What are topgraphic maps?
500
How magma is formed.
What is going through increasing temperature, reducing pressure on rock, or addition of water to a rock?
500
The emission of Ionizing radiation into particles.
What is Radioactivity?
500
Not having enough necessary clean and/or potable water in a specific area.
What is hydrologic poverty?
500
The gaseous layer above the photosphere on the sun.
What is a granule?
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