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Unit 1: universe
Unit 2: earth, sun, moon
Unit 3:earth processes
Unit 4:waves
Miscellaneous
100
Counterclockwise direction of the motion of a planet.
What is the direction of revolution of a planet around the Sun and rotation around its axis?
100
This light will be less intense and hit the surface at a lower angle.
What is indirect light?
100
Where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
100
At the boundaries between two tectonic plates is where they are most likely to occur.
What do most earthquakes occur?
100
The distance that light will travel in one year.
What is a light year?
200
The spinning of a planet around its axis.
What is rotation?
200
The day of the year when the daylight hours are the longest.
What is the summer solstice.
200
At subduction zones where one tectonic plate moves under another plate will cause this feature to form from magma moving to the surface.
Where do most volcanoes occur?
200
The energy moves back and forth with through the medium.
What is a longitudinal wave?
200
The Milky Way galaxy.
What is the name of our galaxy?
300
The shape of the planets' orbits around the Sun.
What is an elliptical shape?
300
The Earth's tilt in space as it revolves around the Sun.
What is the reason for seasons on Earth?
300
When rock is broken down by changing the composition of the minerals in the rock.
What is chemical weathering?
300
The distance from the resting position to the crest or trough.
What is the amplitude of a wave?
300
The line of latitude that cuts the planet into north and south.
What is the equator?
400
As the distance from the Sun increases, the period of revolution increases.
What is the relationship of a planet's distance from the Sun and the planet's revolution?
400
The amount of lit portion of the moon that is seen from Earth.
What is a phase of the moon?
400
The remains or traces of a once living organism usually preserved in rock.
What is a fossil?
400
The wavelength will decrease as it increases.
What is the frequency?
400
The average pattern of weather for a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
A cloud of dust and gas was pulled together by gravity.
How did the solar system begin to form?
500
The blocking of one object in space by another object.
What is an eclipse?
500
Tells us that the younger layer of rock is at the top and the older layers of rock are at the bottom.
What is the Law of Superposition?
500
A signal that can travel long distances without much interference and can compressed.
What is a digital signal?
500
Seventh grade.
What grade will you be in next year?