Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Ecology
Solar Energy
100
The layer of molten (liquid) rock below the crust.
What is the mantle?
100
The U.S. state that has the most earthquakes per day, per hour, per year...
What is California?
100
The name of the active volcano or island in Hawaii.
What is Hawaii or the Big Island?
100
The original source of all energy.
What is the sun?
100
The direction you would face a solar panel for the most sun exposure in Southern California.
What is South?
200
The two metals that primarily make up the solid inner core of the Earth.
What is iron and nickel?
200
The plate boundary (and fault) that nearly splits California in half.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
200
The cause or reason the Hawaiian Islands are there....also why Yellowstone National Park is so volcanically active. Just saying "Volcano" is not good enough... :)
What is a Hot Spot or Magma Plume under the Pacific Plate?
200
The name of an area where living and nonliving things interact.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Three ways that heat travels around the universe.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?
300
The name given to the giant pieces of the Earth's crust.
What are tectonic plates or plates?
300
The name given to the location of where an earthquake occurs at the surface.
What is the epicenter?
300
The name of the under water volcanoes or spreading boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
300
Three types of consumers.
What is herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore? Decomposers would be acceptable too.
300
The name given to the phenomenon where radiation goes through a transparent object, the surfaces inside heat up and emit heat, and the air inside gets warm.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
The theory that states the Earth's crust is broken into giant, moving plates which ride upon a semi-liquid mantle and cause earthquakes, volcanoes, and continue to shape the Earth's surface today...and the scientist who first proposed this theory.
What is Plate Tectonics or Continental Drift and Alfred Wegener?
400
The three types of faults.
What is normal, reverse (thrust), and strike slip.
400
The three types of volcanoes.
What are cinder cone, shield, and composite (strato-volcano)?
400
The name given to energy sources like oil, coal, and natural gas.
What is fossil fuels?
400
The type of heat transfer when you touch a hot pan or hold an ice cube.
What is conduction?
500
The name of the 4 plate boundaries.
What are spreading, collision, subduction, and transform?
500
The name of the plate Kaiser Elementary, Costa Mesa, your house and Hawaii is on.
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
The composite (strato) volcano in Northern California.
What is Mt. Shasta? Mt. Lassen would be acceptable too.
500
Three renewable energy sources and three non-renewable energy sources.
What is either wind, water (hydroelectric), solar, tidal, geothermal, forests (trees), for renewable...and either oil, coal, natural gas, or nuclear (uranium) for non-renewable.
500
The colors of light in the visible spectrum that are reflected from a white object.
What is all the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet?