These two gases make up 99% of the air we breathe.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
***Bonus for 1 Dojo point - Name 1 other gas which makes up the remaining 1% of air.
100
This land form is surrounded by water on three sides but connected to a mainland.
What is a peninsula?
100
This is the process whereby a liquid becomes a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
Which lake did the Aztecs build their city on?
Lake Texcoco in Mexico
200
Scandinavia is located within this continent.
What is Europe?
***BONUS for 1 individual Dojo point - which 3 countries make up Scandinavia?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Rocket fuel is made using liquid forms of these two gases.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
200
This water form is a narrow channel of water that connects 2 larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
**Bonus!! For 5 individual Dojo points or 2 table points, what is the name of the strait found between the Southern tip of Spain and the Northern coast of Africa?
200
This is the name of water in its gaseous form.
What is water vapour?
200
These 2 major lines of latitude are found at 23.5 degrees North and 23.5 degrees South.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
***BONUS! Name 2 other major lines of latitude for 1 Dojo table point.
300
This continent is the largest by both population and size.
What is Asia?
***BONUS for 1 Dojo point: This continent has the smallest population.
300
These two gases have both been used in blimps, although one of them is very flammable and is no longer used.
What are hydrogen and helium?
***BONUS - For 1 Dojo table point! Which disaster occurred in 1937 when a German passenger airship caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring?
300
Landforms are often created by the movement of these under the Earth's crust. (Hint: 2 words)
What is tectonic plates?
300
This is the change of state responsible for the water droplets on your bathroom mirror after taking a hot shower or bath.
What is condensation?
300
What is the name of the technique which was used to build Viking ships, which involved overlapping planks of oak?
What is 'clinker-building'?
***BONUS - For 2 Dojo points, what mixture was stuffed between the cracks in order to waterproof the hull of Viking ships?
400
This ocean surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
400
This gas is combined with sodium to make table salt.
What is chlorine?
400
The definition of this land form is 'An area of relatively level high ground'.
What is a plateau?
400
Melting and evaporation have this in common.
What is an increase in energy (resulting in a change of state)?
400
This is the order of the moon phases beginning with 'New Moon'.
What is New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent.
500
These continents are located entirely within the Western hemisphere.
What are Asia and Australasia?
500
These are 5 of the properties of air which we studied.
What are 'Air takes up space', 'Air can be compressed', 'Air has weight', 'Air exerts pressure' and 'Air expands when heated'?
500
These are 2 of the gulfs bordering Mexico and 2 of its peninsulas.
What are the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California, and the Baja California peninsula and the Yucatan peninsula?
500
This metal has an uncharacteristically low melting point.
What is mercury or gallium?
500
These are the names of 4 of the 5 ships in Magellan's fleet.
What are the Victoria, Concepcion, Trinidad, San Antonio and Santiago?