Our solar system
Weathering and Erosion
Plate Tectonics
Earth's "Spheres"
Grab Bag
200

This is the largest planet in our solar system

What is Jupiter?

200

This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces of rock

What is weathering?

200

This man was the first to propose the idea of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics 

Who is Alfred Wegner?

200

This sphere is everything that is living 

What is the biosphere?

200

This is weather patterns that happen over many years in a consistent repeating pattern. 

What is climate?

400

This planet was conisdered our 9th planet until just recently when it became a "dwarf Planet" 

What is pluto?

400

This is the breaking down of rock by other rocks from the forces of wind, water, ice and gravity.  

What is abrasion?

400

This is the type of plate boundary when two plates are coming together 

What is a convergent boundary?

400

Clouds fall under this sphere. 

What is the hydrosphere?

400

This is when scientists use layers of soil around a fossil to figure out about how old it is.  It is not exact.....

What is relative dating?

600

This planet has two moons, Phobos and Deimos.

What is Mars?

600

This is the type of weathering that caused the Statue of Liberty to turn green

What is chemical weathering?

600

These are the two main geologic features that can be caused at a convergent boundary.  

What are mountains and volcanoes?

600

Magma falls into this sphere. 

What is the geosphere?

600

This is the phase of the water cycle after evaporation 

What is condensation?

800

This is a ball of dirty rock and ice in a deliberate orbit around our sun.  Bonus:  they have tails too!!

What is a comet?

800

This is the movement of sediment by wind, water, ice and gravity. 

What is erosion?

800

This is the type of boundary where two plates slide past one another.

What is a transform boundary?
800

Carbon Dioxide falls under this sphere. 

What is the atmosphere?

800

Mr. Miller's dog's name. 

What is Rufus?

1000

This is our 8 planets names in order.  

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

1000

This is the action that causes the Mississippi delta and the Nile river delta to form.   

What is deposition?

1000

This is the main type of event that can happen at a transform boundary.  

What is an earthquake?

1000

This sphere is sometimes not included with the other four as it is basically all water, but frozen. 

What is the cryosphere?

1000

This is how old Mr. Miller is multiplied by the number of years he has been at PBMS divided by how many classes he teaches each day.  

What is 106?