Water and Weather
Land and Plate Tectonics
Human Interaction with the Environment
Math
Miscellaneous
100
What are the four stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and ground/runoff water
100
What is the name of the giant land mass connecting all of Earth’s land 300 million years ago?
Pangea
100
What is the layer of the earth where we live and where weather occurs?
Troposphere
100
What is the mathematical definition of density?
Density = mass/volume
100
Trees and plants take in what from the air and produce oxygen?
Carbon dioxide
200
What are the three phases of matter? (Remember our molecule game!)
Solid, Liquid, Gas
200
Name the three types of tectonic boundaries and demonstrate them with hand movements.
Divergent <>, convergent><, transform
200
What is it called when gases trap in heat and cause a natural heating-up of the earth?
The greenhouse effect
200
How can you represent .10 as a fraction?
1/10
200
What are the rays sent to the Earth from the sun that you cannot see?
Ultraviolet (UV) rays
300
What type of front is associated with violent storms then nice weather?
Cold Front
300
Name the layers of the Earth from outermost to innermost
Crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core, inner core
300
What layer forms a thin shield that protects life on Earth from the sun’s ultraviolet rays?
Ozone layer
300
What is 28/100 as a percentage?
28%
300
A liquid changes to a gas phase through which phase change?
Evaporation
400
If mass stays the same, but volume increases, what happens to the density of a substance?
Density decreases (inverse relationship with volume)
400
How is a sedimentary rock formed?
Pressure only, no heat
400
Burning ______ generates carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
Fossil fuels
400
On a coordinate plane with an X and a Y axis, which axis is vertical and which is horizontal?
X is horizontal, Y is vertical
400
What are the four types of precipitation?
Rain, sleet, snow, hail
500
What is a super saturated solution and how does it relate to relative humidity?
Super saturated solutions hold more "stuff" than a normal solution would (like our rock candy). We could add more sugar because we added heat and stirring. They are related to relative humidity since relative humidity is the amount of water in the air as a percentage. Rain happens when the air can't hold any more water.
500
What is the difference between erosion and weathering?
Erosion involves movement of particles, weathering is the breakdown of particles
500
Technologies that use alternative energy are good for the environment because they do not emit what?
Carbon dioxide
500
What percent of the pie have I eaten if I have eaten ⅗ of it?
60%
500
What is the range of the Richter scale?
1-8, 8 being the highest
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