Mapping Your World
A tool people use to help navigate areas that are new to them.
What is a map?
Minerals in soil come from these 3 sediments.
This type of Scientist studies and forecasts weather.
What is a Meteorologist?
A series of events that keeps repeating in order.
What is a cycle?
The Earths crust is divided into sections called this.
What are Tectonic Plates?
This is what Hypersaline means.
What is super salty?
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
The art of making maps or charts.
What is Cartography?
These are the 3 basic types of weathering.
What is Physical Weathering, Chemical Weathering and Biological Weathering?
This measures of distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
Where our bodies get Essential Minerals from.
What is the food we eat?
The 3 phases of water and the reason ice floats.
What is solid, liquid and gas? And what is ice is less dense then water?
This does not exist in the abyssal plain in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
I am easy to lift but hard to throw.
What is a feather?
Imaginary vertical map lines on the earth that start at the North Pole and travel to the South Pole.
What are the Lines of Longitude?
This type of Weathering causes ice to crack or split rocks.
What is Physical Weathering?
What is rain, sleet, snow or hail?
The Rock Cycle consists of these 3 rocks.
What is Igneous rocks, Metamorphic rocks & Sedimentary rocks?
The weight of something pushing down on something else.
What is pressure?
When a living creature gives off its own light is it called this.
What is Bioluminescence?
You can hold this in your right hand but never in your left hand.
What is your left hand?
The Earth is divided into this many time zones.
What is 24 time zones?
This happens when water, wind or another natural element wears something down and then transports it to another area.
What is Erosion?
What is either a supercomputer, a weather balloon, a doppler radar or a satellite?
The Carbon cycle mostly occurs here.
What is the Atmosphere?
A measure of how much stuff is in a certain space.
What is density?
This place is known as an archipelago.
What is Hawaii?
This has hands but cannot clap.
What is a clock?
The prime meridian passes through this town in England.
What is Greenwich, England?
Mountains, Canyons, Valleys and Plateaus are all examples of these?
What are Landforms?
Here are 3 things that would be included in a typical forecast.
What is the sky condition, temperature, precipitation, wind, time or severe weather?
The 4 main parts of the Water Cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection?
The combination of a climate zone & the life that exists in that zone.
What is a biome?
This is formed in a cave as a result of water erosion, acid and chemical weathering?
What is stalagmites and stalactites?
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights and rode out on Friday. This is how he did it.
What is his horses name is Friday?
This is another name for the antimeridian at 180 degrees longitude.
What is the International Date Line?
This is the perfect type of soil to grow food in.
What is Loam?
Air is made up of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide
What is the composition or gases that make up air?
This is what converts nitrogen in the air into nitrogen our bodies can use.
What is Bacteria?
These are the 5 Oceans of the world.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans?
Name a famous canyon
What is the Grand Canyon.
You are in a dark space with a wood stove, a gas lamp and a candle. This is what you would light first if you only had one match.
What is the match?