Rocks & Minerals
Weather and Climate
Earth’s Layers and Forces
Water and Oceans
Space and the Earth
100

This hard, shiny gemstone is often found on rings and necklaces.

What is a diamond?

100

The white fluffy things in the sky that hold water are called these.

What are clouds?

100

The top layer of Earth where we live is called this.

What is the crust?

100

Most of Earth’s water is found in these.

What are oceans?

100

The Earth travels around this star.

What is the Sun?

200

This type of rock is often gray and used to build sidewalks.

What is concrete

200

This tool measures how hot or cold the air is.

What is a thermometer?

200

This hot, melted rock lies beneath the Earth’s crust.

What is magma?

200

The regular rising and falling of ocean water levels is called this.

What are tides?

200

The Earth takes this many days to make one trip around the Sun

What is 365 days (or one year)?

300

This white powdery rock is used to make chalk.

What is limestone?

300

When water vapor cools and changes into liquid drops, it’s called this.

What is condensation?

300

When Earth’s plates move suddenly, it causes this natural disaster.

What is an earthquake?

300

This current in the Atlantic Ocean helps keep Europe’s climate warmer.

What is the Gulf Stream?

300

The spinning of the Earth on its axis causes this daily event.

What is day and night?

400

When lava cools, it hardens into this kind of rock.

What is volcanic rock?

400

The spinning of the Earth causes this effect, which helps create wind patterns.

The spinning of the Earth causes this effect, which helps create wind patterns.

400

This solid layer lies between the outer core and the crust.

What is the mantle?

400

When rainwater flows into rivers and lakes, it’s part of this cycle.

What is the water cycle?

400

The moon’s pull on Earth’s oceans causes this movement.

What are tides?

500

Rocks are made up of these smaller natural materials.

What are minerals?

500

The long-term pattern of temperature and rainfall in a region is called this.

What is climate?

500

The theory that Earth’s continents slowly move over time is called this.

What is plate tectonics?

500

The deepest part of the ocean is known as this trench.

What is the Mariana Trench?

500

The invisible line Earth spins around is called this.

What is the axis?