Earth's History
Fossil Record
Earth's Oceans
Weather & Climate
Solar System
100
Roughly how old is Earth?
What is 4.5 billion years old?
100
The preserved remains or trace of an organism from the distant past, typically at least 10,000 years old
What is a fossil?
100
What causes the Earth's tides
what is the moon's gravity
100
______ is the short-term state of the atmosphere which ______ is the long-term average weather patterns in a specific region over decades or more.
What is weather; climate
100
The four planets closest to the sun are classified as
what are terrestrial planets
200
Determines the actual numerical age of an object, rock, or fossil by measuring physical properties like the decay of radioactive isotopes
What is absolute age dating
200
The type of rock that contains fossils
What is sedimentary?
200
In the ocean, temperature _______ with depth?
What is decreases?
200
What happens when two air masses meet but neither advances
What is a stationary front?
200
Causes the temperature to vary at different locations on Earth
what is the tilt of Earth's Axis
300
The chronological system that organize Earth's history and enabled scientists to find relationships among geological events, environmental conditions, and fossilized life forms
What is Geologic Time Scale?
300
A footprint would be an example of this type of fossil
What is a trace fossil?
300
What is the percentage of salt water vs. freshwater on planet Earth?
What is 97% Saltwater and 3% freshwater
300
A large volume of air that has the same characteristics of the region?
what is an air mass?
300
Location of the Asteroid Belt
What is between mars and jupiter?
400
The principal that states that geologic processes that occurred are still occurring today
What is Uniformitarianism?
400
A trilobite, or an extinct marine arthropod, is an example of what type of fossil?
What is an index fossil?
400
Salt can ______ the density of water.
increase
400
A narrow band of fast, high altitude westerly wind
what is the jet stream?
400
An astronomical model that places a stationary Earth at the center of the universe, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars orbiting around it
what is the geocentric model of the universe
500
States that in an undisturbed sequence, the oldest layers of rock are at the bottom and the youngest layers of rock are at the top.
What is the law of superposition
500
An insect in amber would be an example of this type of fossil
What is a True Form fossil?
500
Match the letters: to the different parts of the wave
A = wavelength
B= Wave Crest
C = Wave Height
D = Wave Trough
500
Type of pressure system that is known to bring fair weather
high pressure system
500
This scientist proposed that the planets orbit the sun in an ellipse rather than a circle?
Who is Kepler?