Earth Science/Rocks and Minerals
When the moon moves in front of the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The hardened remain of a living thing. Examples include petrified wood and dinosaur bones.
What is a fossil?
An object in motion has what kind of energy?
What is kinetic energy?
Which of the following planets is classified as a terrestrial (inner) planet in our Solar System -
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, or Neptune?
What is Mars?
The movement of water from the Earth's surface, caused by extra-planetary gravitational forces.
What are tides?
What do you call bacteria that live in extreme conditions?
What are extremophiles?
Which is the weakest force - gravity, magnetism, or the weak nuclear force?
What is gravity?
What are the building blocks of protons, neutrons, and electrons called.
What are quarks?
What is the primary element that powers the core of the Sun through nuclear fusion?
What is a Hydrogen?
What are puffy white clouds with flat bottoms called.
What is cumulus clouds?
A community of plants, animals, and the environment in which they live.
What is an ecosystem?
An atom's loss or gain of elections.
What is ionization?
If you were to travel to a planet that has twice the mass of Earth but the exact same radius, how would your weight change?
What is it will double?
Surface gravity is directly proportional to mass when the radius is constant, so doubling the mass doubles your weight.
According to the Mohs Hardness Scale, what is the hardest known natural mineral on Earth?
What are diamonds?
What pigment is used in photosynthesis?
What is chlorophyll?
What type of rock is shale?
What is sedimentary rock?
The transformation of an object from solid to gas.
What is sublimation?
During a total lunar eclipse, what is the correct spatial alignment of the three celestial bodies?
What is Sun - Earth - Moon?
What type of rock is formed from the cooling and hardening or melted rock, either magma or lava?
What is igneous?
Which type of single celled organism has organelles?
What are protists (e.g. Amoeba, Paramecium, and Euglena)?
What geologic phenomena create oceanic crust.
What is a mid ocean ridge?
What is hydrolysis?
Which planet in our Solar System features a runaway greenhouse effect and a thick, toxic atmosphere of carbon dioxide?
What is Venus? Venus has a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere and sulfuric acid clouds, making it the hottest planet due to a severe greenhouse effect.