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What are the 3 layers of the Earth?
Crust, mantle, core
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
Idea of Pangea splitting apart to our modern-day plates.
What is a mass extinction?
many groups of organisms dying in a short amount of time
What was the safe drinking and clean water act?
An act that protects the rights of people to have access to clean drinking water and to keep all waterways clean.
Viscosity
Materials resistance to flow
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
Why do wood structures more often survive earthquakes better than structures made out of concrete and steel?
Wood bends and has more elasticity
what are convergent boundaries?
where two plates meet and smash against each other
What is the idea of retrograde motion?
When a planet orbits the sun faster, it can appear as if the planet reverses motion due to the different perspectives.
Non-renewable resource
Natural resources that exist in a fixed amount
How long does it take for the light to travel from the sun to the earth?
8 or 9 minutes
Why is it so hard to clean up after an oil spill?
So much oil, doesnt mix with the water, and can become flammable
What were the first oxygen producers?
Cyanobacteria
What are some negatives for an ecosystem when people make cities?
As land is taken up, there is less area for wildlife to grow.
Radiation
Electric and magnetic disturbances that travel through space.
What is the largest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
What is the Circum-pacific belt commonly referred to as?
Ring of fire
What was the cambrian explosion?
Rapid diversification of many organisms
what causes high and low tides? be specific
gravitational pull of the sun and moon
Hubble telescope
Launched in 1990, it was designed to obtain sharp visible-light images without atmospheric interference.
What is the universal blood donor type?
How do we locate the place of an earthquake after using triangulation?
Using 3 or more points, we can locate where an earthquake occurred based on the radius of the 3 points.
Give me all 5 types of clean energy.
Solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear
What are greenhouse gases and why are they important to Earth's atmosphere?
Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat, such as carbon dioxide, and help to keep the Earth's temperature stable.
Paleomagnetism
Study of Earth's magnetic field