Space
Sun/Earth/Moon
Tectonics
Rocks
Water and Weather
100
The scientific study of stars is called this.
What is astronomy?
100
The season that people in the United States experience when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
100
This layer of Earth is made mostly of solid iron.
What is the inner core?
100
These are the three types of sedimentary rock.
Clastic, organic, and chemical.
100
The type of storm depicted in this image.
What is an isolated storm?
200
This is the measurement of the amount of matter or "stuff" in something.
What is mass?
200
This occurs during a full moon when Earth is directly between the moon and the sun.
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
This occurs when oceanic crust converges with continental crust.
What is a subduction zone?
200
This type of igneous rock forms from cooled lava on Earth's surface.
What is extrusive?
200
The process in which plants suck up water from the ground and release water vapor from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
300
This is the measurement of the pull of gravity on an object.
What is weight?
300
Name this phase!
What is a first-quarter moon?
300
Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are called this.
What is the lithosphere?
300
Based on this image, do you think this granite cooled quickly or slowly?
Slowly!
300
These storms happen when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
The hottest stars are this color.
What is blue?
400
These two factors are what cause the seasons on Earth.
What is the Earth's tilt at 23.5 degrees and the Earth's revolution around the sun?
400
Give two pieces of evidence for continental drift.
What could be:
1. Continents fit together like puzzle pieces.
2. Fossils of land animals match on opposite shores.
3. Rock layers and coal deposits match on opposite shores.
400
These two forces cause rocks to metamorphose.
What are heat and pressure?
400
These are the two driving forces of the water cycle.
What are gravity from Earth and heat from the sun?
500
The bands of color produced when star light passes through a prism.
What is a spectrum?
500
The moon phase during a solar eclipse.
What is a new moon?
500
Volcanic arcs, ocean trenches, and mountain ranges form because of this force.
What is compression?
500
Is this rock foliated or nonfoliated?
Foliated!
500
Give a sequence of events that could move a water molecule from the ocean to an aquifer.
Evaporation -> condensation -> precipitation -> infiltration.