Earth's Tilt/ seasons
Tides
Spheres of Earth
Rock Cycle
Resource Management
Cell Theory
Characteristics of Organisms
Wildcard
100

What causes the seasons?

Earth's tilted axis

100

What is the object that mainly causes ocean tides?

Moon (sun has very little effect)

100

How many spheres does Earth have?

4

100

What kind of rock is made by cooling magma?

Igneous

100

What are the 4 resources we learned about?

Air, Water, soil, and energy

100

What was Hooke studying under a microscope when he thought of the name "cells"?

Cork bark

100

If an organism is autotrophic, where does its food come from?

The sun

100

What sphere are we a part of?

Biosphere

200

When it is winter here, what season would it be in the southern hemisphere?

Summer

200

What force causes ocean tides?

Gravity

200

What sphere is a lake part of?

Hydrosphere

200

Cementing and compaction form what kind of rock?

Sedimentary

200

What is the term for "getting more by doing less"? It is one of the ways we can manage resources

Efficiency

200

What type of living things are made of cells?

All of them. Living = made of cells

200

What do you look for to determine if a cell under a microscope is prokaryotic or Eukaryotic?

Nucleus, circle in the middle

200

What does the prefix "auto" mean?

Self

300

What is the term for what the Earth does around the sun?

Revolution, revolve

300

How many high and low tides happen in a day?

2 of each

300

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300

What is the process that turns a metamorphic rock into an igneous rock?

Melting (into magma) and cooling

300

What is it called when someone does not get all of the nutrients they need to survive? It is often caused by a region's lack or resources.

Malnutrition

300

Where do all cells come from, according to Cell Theory?

Pre-existing cells

300

Are you unicellular or multicellular??

Multicellular

300

What kind of tide happens when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are in a straight line?

Spring tide

400

What causes day and night? (specific term)

Rotation of Earth

400

What is it called when the Earth, Sun, and Moon form a right angle?

Neap Tide

400

What does the Geosphere contain?

earth/rocks

400

What type of rock can a metamorphic rock turn into?

All of them

400

Name a fossil fuel

Coal, natural gas, oil

400

What is the jelly-like substance inside all cells?

Cytoplasm

400

What is it called when an organism must consume other organisms for energy?

Heterotroph

400

Who is the scientist that is credited with proposing all three parts of cell theory? (using the discoveries made by previous scientists)

Rudolph Virchow

500

What is the degree of Earth's tilt?

23.5 degrees

500

What kind of tide has the biggest tidal range?

(highest highs and lowest lows)

Spring Tide

500

What sphere is mainly nitrogen, and a little Oxygen?

Atmosphere

500

What is the process that creates a metamorphic rock?

Heat and Pressure

500

What is it called when we purposely use less of a resources  in an effort to save it?

Conservation

500

Cell theory says that cells are the basic unit of _________ and __________ in living things.

Structure and Function

500

Describe yourself in terms of:       Prokaryote/Eukaryote; Autotroph/Heterotroph; Unicellular/Multicellular

Eukaryote, heterotroph, and multicellular

500

Where is the DNA in a Prokaryotic cell?

Floating in the cytoplasm