What lunar phase is it when the right side of the moon is exactly half full?
What is a quarter moon?
The greenhouse gas that humans have emitted that is causing climate change
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
The theory that explains that the continents have moved over millions of years
What is plate tectonics
The season that people in the United States experience when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
How do relative and absolute dating differ?
Relative is an approximate age of a rock or fossil based on its location in the crust, while absolute dating is finding the exact age using technology (also called radioactive dating and carbon dating).
The moon phase during a Solar Eclipse?
What is a new moon?
What happens when a cold front meets a warm front?
What is warm air that is less dense rises up and possibly causes precipitation?
About how many galaxies are in the observable universe?
200,000,000,000 - two hundred billion!
What are two factors affecting the amount of gravity?
What are distance and mass?
What is weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces, while erosion carries them away?
Explain two pieces of evidence that scientists use to show that tectonic plates have moved long distances over time.
What could be:
1. Continents fit together like puzzle pieces...
2. Fossils line up...
3. Rock types match up...
4. Glacial striations line up...
5. Mountain ranges line up...
6. Coal (made in tropical locations) found in Antarctica...
7. Age of sea-floor at mid ocean ridge
Which weather front causes large thunderstorms?
What is a cold front?
Explain the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
What is:
mechanical weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces, but they remain the same kind of rock
chemical weathering rearranges the atoms and creates a new type of rock or substance
Type of boundary that causes earthquakes
What is transform?
What type of weather could you expect when atmospheric pressure is high?
What is sunny and blue skies?
What will happen when oceanic crust converges with land crust?
What is a subduction zone?