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The sun an the objects that move around make up this...
What is a solar system?
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What is a natural resource? Give two examples.
A useful material found in nature.
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What is a landform? Give three examples.
A natural feature of land.
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Describe a mineral. Give an example.
A solid, nonliving substance found in nature.EX: salt, feldspar, quatrz
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What is the center of our solar system?
The sun
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What is the order of the planets in our solar system?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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Explain the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Renewable resources are easy to replace while nonrenewable take millions of years to form and cannot be replaced easily.
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Where do find most of the water on Earth?
The oceans
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What are the three types of rocks?
Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
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How would you describe a continent and an ocean?
Continent: Large mass of land Ocean: large body of salt water
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What are the inner and outer planets? What separates them?
Inner: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Outer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Asteroid belt separates them.
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How do fossil fuels form? Give one example.
They form from the remains of ancient plants and animals. EX: coal, oil, natural gas
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Name all of the continents and oceans.
North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, Antarctica Indian, Southern, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic
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What are the 5 properties that we use to classify minerals?
Streak, luster, color, texture, hardness
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Why is it important to conserve fossil fuels?
They are nonrenewable resources that take millions of years to form. If we use them too quickly, we could run out of them.
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What is Neptune made from?
Gas
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Name three ways that you can conserve energy.
Answers vary
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Describe a plateau.
Land that is higher than the area around it with steep sides and a flat top.
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Describe luster.
Describes how light reflects off of a mineral
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What is a meteor?
Small pieces of rock or metal that have broken off from comets or asteroids.
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How long does it take Earth to make one orbit around the sun?
About 365 days
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What are the 3 R's? What do they mean?
Reduce: use less of Reuse: use again Recycle: turn something old into something new
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Name two underwater landforms and describe them.
Continental shelf, trench, abyssal plain
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Describe streak
the color of powder left when a mineral scratches a white tile.
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Tell me how metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rocks form.
Metamorphic: changed by heating and squeezing Sedimentary: layers of sediment Igneous:melted rock cools and hardens