Earth Systems
Earth Systems
$100: The four major systems that make up our planet
Answer: What are the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?
$100: An educated guess or prediction that can be tested.
Answer: What is a hypothesis?
$100: The three classical states of matter.
Answer: What are solid, liquid, and gas?
$100: Living and non-living parts of an ecosystem.
Answer: What is biotic and abiotic?
$100: The closest star to Earth
Answer: What is the Sun?
$200: The layer of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
$200: The factor in an experiment that is deliberately changed
Answer: What is the independent variable?
$200: The original source of most energy on Earth
Answer: What is the Sun?
$200: The term for all the living and nonliving things in a specific area.
Answer: What is an ecosystem?
$200: The force of attraction that exists between all objects in space.
Answer: What is gravity?
$300: All living things on Earth and the places where they live.
Answer: What is the biosphere?
$300: Information collected from observations and measurements.
Answer: What is data?
Answer: What is kinetic energy? [1]
$300: Organisms that create their own food using sunlight
Answer: What are producers?
$300: The total number of recognized planets in our solar system and the name of a dwarf planet
What is 8 and what is Pluto / Ceres etc?
$400: The solid parts of Earth, including rocks, soil, landforms, and Earth's interior.
Answer: What is the geosphere?
$400: Conducting the same experiment multiple times helps to ensure this.
Answer: What is reliability?
$400: The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water.
Answer: What is condensation?
$400: Organisms that break down dead material and return nutrients to the soil.
Answer: What are decomposers? [1]
$400 The path one space object takes around another and the turning of a planet on its axis?
What is an orbit (or revolution) and what is rotation?
$500: All of Earth's water, including oceans, rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater, and water vapour.
Answer: What is the hydrosphere?
$500: A well-supported explanation of how something happens in nature.
Answer: What is a scientific theory? [1]
$500: Energy that is stored in an object's position or state.
Answer: What is potential energy?
$500: The physical or behavioral traits that help an organism survive in its environment.
Answer: What are adaptations?
$500 The correct order of these cosmic structures, from smallest to largest: solar system, universe, moon, galaxy, planet.
What is moon, planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe?