Earth's Features
What directions are listed on a compass rose?
North, south, east, and west.
Plants and animals are made up of a specified structures. Their structures have "jobs." What are these called?
Functions.
What is the energy of a moving object called?
Kinetic/Motion.
What is a massive wave that can cause damage when it reaches land called?
A tsunami.
What is the process of burning a fuel to produce heat and light called?
Combustion.
Mrs. Hardy wants to understand the differences in elevation within Denver, Colorado. What kind of map would show these differences by displaying contour lines?
A topographic map.
What are the tiny openings on a leaf that take in carbon dioxide from the air and release other gases from the plant called?
Stomata.
Heat is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another. Describe what occurs to an object's particles when they are heated.
As the temperature of the object increases, the particles begin to move faster.
There has been no rain for months. This long period of very dry weather is called what?
A drought.
Name one of the three main fossil fuels.
Coal, petroleum, or natural gas.
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
Name two examples of a pollinator.
Bees, bats, butterflies, moths, birds, etc.
What is it called when energy moves from one object to another?
A transfer of energy.
Earthquakes are measured by their magnitude. A magnitude 7.7 (M7.7) is considered to be what kind of earthquake?
Serious, significant, damaging, severe, etc.
What is the primary, or original, source of almost all fuels?
The sun.
Gold and silver are examples of metals. Diamonds are an example of what?
Gems.
A stimulus.
Two cars collide with one another. Their kinetic energy is transformed into what two other kinds of energy?
Thermal and sound.
An avalanche and landslide are similar. What is the key difference?
Landslides are the sliding of rock and soil down a slope. Avalanches are the sliding of snow, ice and rock down a slope.
Describe what makes an energy source renewable.
They do not run out as we use them.
Physical and chemical weathering leads to erosion. After weathered particles are eroded, they settle in new locations. What is this process called?
Deposition.
Mrs. Hardy created an electric circuit with all of the parts necessary: a switch, battery, wire, and light bulb. She flips the switch to "on," and nothing happens. What could be wrong with her circuit?
The circuit's parts are not connected properly.
Lava is one hazard related to a volcanic eruption. What is another?
Ash cloud/hot gases released into the air/pollution.
A release of substances into the environment is called what?
An emission.