Charles Darwin
On hitting a lighter continental plate, a heavy oceanic plate slides down into the mantle. There, the plate edge melts and the magma rises to the surface forming what surface features?
Volcanoes
Name the physical process through which the molecules of a liquid escape as a vapor.
While walking through an Oregon forest, you come across an eighty-acre parcel in which only stumps remain. What logging practice accounts for this?
Clear-cutting
What in the solar system may have a tail over sixty-million miles long?
A comet
Hydrogen
Sometime about 200 million years ago, all the continents were connected to form a single super-continent. That land mass broke up into several large continents that slowly moved apart from one another, a movement known as continental...
Drift
What sense can be temporarily disturbed by being in continuous free fall or riding on a merry-go-round?
Sense of balance
What is the name for a large number of wild quadruped mammals that remain together as a group?
Herd
Name the pathway the Earth travels in making one round trip around the sun.
Orbit
What is the name for water's gaseous phase?
Steam
In moving from one flower to another in search of nectar, bees may transport what substance from the anther of one flower to the stigmas of other flowers?
Pollen
What word completes this ditty?
If Centigrade confuse you,
As very well it might,
Nine-fifths of C, plus thirty-two
Will give you...
Fahrenheit
What natural body process has two main functions including excretion of waste products such as salts and cooling the body by the evaporation of water from the skin surface?
Poles (north and south)
This is a description of what scientific instrument?
It has an ink pen attached to a long arm. The arm is weighed down and attached to a spring. During a geological disturbance, the arm bounces, causing the pen to leave marks on paper.
Seismograph
Name the land forms which result from wind moving particulate sediments across a desert.
Dunes
At what temperature on the Fahrenheit scale do water molecules vaporize?
212 degrees
What kind of rock forms when intense heat and pressure cook and squeeze sedimentary rock beneath the Earth's surface?
Metamorphic Rock
The Earth's axis of rotation coincides with that diameter terminating the Earth's geographical north and south what?
What biome is characterized by high daytime temperatures, cold nighttime temperatures, sparse vegetation, little topsoil, and little rainfall?
Desert
What jet propelled marine creature has a soft, torpedo-shaped body with two flaps used for steering and ten arms with suckers?
What is the name for any substance that contains only one kind of atom?
Element
Name the climatic condition where water loss due to evapo-transpiration is greater than water inputs through precipitation, resulting in a prolonged water shortage.
Drought
Which planet is named about the king of the Roman Gods?
Jupiter
"Coronary" indicates what organ?
Heart