What type of air mass forms over land in cold regions?
What is Continental Polar (cP)
100
Describe why the base of a mountain is bigger than the top.
The top is erode, and gravity bring it down to the bottom.
100
Name one feature you would see in a sedimentary rock.
What are fossils, cemented rocks, or layers.
100
Name the 3 type of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform.
200
Finish the statement, “Gravity from the Sun increase as distance from the Sun…”
What is decreases.
200
Compare the density of cold air to warm air.
Cold air is more dense and sinks compared to hot air which is less dense and will rise.
200
Describe how water can erode rocks.
Water can cut through rock and create canyons, it can round rocks and pebbles, and can move and deposit sediment along rivers.
200
How would you tell the difference between an intrusive and extrusive igneous rock?
Intrusive rocks have large crystals, extrusive have very small crystals.
200
What features would you see at all 3 plate boundaries?
What are earthquakes or moving land.
300
The universe is constantly expanding, name one piece of evidence that supports this theory.
What is redshift or background radiation.
300
Which type of front brings sudden thunderstorms?
What is a cold front.
300
Name the 2 types of erosion.
What are chemical and physical.
300
Name 3 properties scientists use to identify minerals.
What are luster, hardness, color, streak, magnetic.
300
Describe why California experiences earthquakes often, but NYC does not.
California has a transform fault going through it, where as NYC does not have any active plate boundaries near by.
400
Name the 3 type of galaxies.
What are elliptical, spiral, and irregular.
400
Name 2 greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, or water vapor.
400
At a curve in a river, which erodes more, the inside or outside?
What is the outside.
400
Describe how the 3 types of rocks are connected/related.
All rocks erode and can become sedimentary rocks. When rocks are melted, then can form igneous. When igneous and sedimentary rocks have applied pressure or heat, they can become metamorphic.
400
Name 2 pieces of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics.
Similar fossils between continents, the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, we see feature such as volcanos, earthquakes, mountains, and trenches
500
Approximately, how old is our Sun?
What is 4.5 Billion years. (Will accept anything between 4-5 Billion)
500
What is dew point?
What is the temperature for when precipitation will occur/when the air is fully saturated with water.
500
Describe how an Ox Bow lake forms.
A river's water velocity is uneven and create curves. The curves continue until the meander so much they start a new path and a lake where the old curve forms.
500
What does it mean for a rock to be porous?
The rock has holes or space between grains so that water travel or be stored within it.
500
What is the name of the most recent supercontinent?