Earth Science
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These are the 3 main types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
This is the art of making maps.
What is Cartography.
This is the position in a solar system where life could be possible.
What is the Goldilocks or Habitable Zone.
These are the 3 phases of water that we encounter almost every day.
What are solid, liquid, and gas.
This is a scientist who studies and forecasts the weather.
What is a Meteorologist.
These are the 8 planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
These lines on a globe run East to West.
What are lines of Latitude.
Slow cooling rocks are more likely to have these types of structures in them.
What are Crystals.
This is the average weather at a location over a long period of time.
What is Climate.
This is the temperature scale we use here in the United States.
What is the Fahrenheit scale.
This is a giant invisible bubble that keeps Earth safe from the Sun's high energy particles and space radiation.
What is the Magentosphere.
This is how deep humans have been able to drill into the Earth's Crust.
What is 8 miles.
(Kola superdeep borehole)
These are the 3 phases of water that we encounter almost every day.
What is sea level.
A barometer measures this.
What is Air Pressure.
This is the measure of how much matter is packed into a given space.
(it is why ice can float on water)
What is Density.
What are the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Biosphere.
These are the 3 types of rocks.
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
These are the motions of the oceans that occur due to the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.
What are Tides.
A rainy, overcast day is caused by this type of pressure system.
What is a low pressure system.
This Pole has no land, it is made entirely of ice.
What is the North Pole.
These are the 3 main parts of the Earth (bonus point if you can name all the parts we modeled with play-doh).
What are the Core, Mantle, and Crust.
(Bonus: Inner Core, Outer Core, Lower Mantle, Upper Mantle, Crust)
These are 2 things that can help to create a new kind of rock.
What are Temperature and Pressure.
This force affects the Ocean and Wind currents and is created by the Earth spinning.
What is the Coriolis Force.
This is the pattern of the Sun in the sky throughout a whole year.
What is an Analemma.
What is universal natural laws or Creation is consistent (our universe is not chaotic or random).