Earth Science
The Moon, Seasons, and Calendars
Maps
Matter & Minerals
Rocks & the Rock Cycle
100
The planet that we live on
What is Earth?
100
This is when the moon blocks out the sun's light
What is a solar eclipse?
100
The most accurate kind of map
What is a globe?
100
The most common element in Earth's crust
What is oxygen?
100
A natural, solid mixture of one or more types of mineral grains
What is a rock?
200
The layer of gases that surround Earth
What is the atmosphere?
200
The season that folks in Australia are experiencing right now
What is spring?
200
The two places where all lines of longitude meet
What are the North Pole and the South Pole?
200
The particles found in the nucleus of an atom
What are protons and neutrons?
200
The kind of rock that forms by cooling and crystallization of magma or lava
What is igneous rock?
300
The rigid outer layer of Earth, composed mostly of solid rock
What is the lithosphere?
300
The feature of Earth that causes its seasons
What is tilt?
300
The two things that closed loops represent on a topographic map
What are hills and craters?
300
A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid, with a definite chemical composition
What is a mineral?
300
Sediment usually made mostly of quartz mineral grains
What is sand?
400
The Earth systems that mankind inhabit
What is all of them?
400
This phase of the moon's cycle
What is a waxing gibbous?
400
On a topographic map, curves that connect points of equal elevation
What are contour lines?
400
Scarce minerals that are highly valued for their exceptional beauty
What are gems?
400
A sedimentary rock, sometimes formed in rivers, that contains a visible mixture of grain sizes, including fine sand and large pebbles
What is conglomerate?
500
The three major subdivisions of Earth Science
What are geology, oceanography, and meteorology?
500
The region around a star in which liquid water can exist on the surface of planets
What is the habitable zone?
500
The name of the first part of the geographic coordinates 39°N, 77°W
What is latitude?
500
The feature other than shininess and malleability that helps distinguish metals apart from nonmetals
What is high electric conductivity?
500
This type of rock is formed directly from any of the three types of rock in the rock cycle, deep under Earth's surface
What is metamorphic rock?
