Seasons
What time of year experiences more solar intensity?
What is summer?
What Does Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Show?
What is radiation from the Big Bang?
The earth’s axis of rotation is always tilted 23.5 degrees from which of the following?
What is the line perpendicular to the plane of the earth’s path around the sun
What two elements are originally from the Big Bang and comprise the majority of the universe
What are hydrogen and helium?
When an oceanic plate meets a continental plate
What is subduction?
Hot water rising in a pan of boiling water and sinking back as it cools is a good description of what?
What are convection currents?
If it is spring in Russia, what season is it in the UP?
What is Spring?
How big did the universe begin?
What is a singularity (or a single atom)
Changes in the angle between earth's axis and the sun can result in:
What is the amount of sun a location receives throughout the year
A low mass star will become ____ when it runs out of fuel.
What is a white dwarf or black dwarf?
A focus in an earthquake is:
What is the point below ground where an earthquake originates.
Which of the following is NOT a product of volcanoes?
A. Cinders B. Lahars C. Petroleum D. CO2 gas
What is C
If it is spring in Russia, what season is it in South America?
What is Fall?
Why are galaxies red shifted?
What is they are moving away?
What phase is the moon in for a solar eclipse?
What is New Moon
Stellar fusion is:
What is squeezing two elements together to make a new type
The Himalayas are a result of what plate boundary?
What is continental convergent?
The name of the volcano that resulted in a human genetic bottleneck that almost annihilated humans?
What is Toba?
Which time of year has equal hours of daylight and darkness across the globe?
What is Spring or fall equinox?
True or false: Space is expanding along with the things in space.
True.
Which planetary body has the most eccentric orbit?
What is Pluto?
A supernova only happens with this type of star.
What is a high mass star?
What does the slowing or reflection of seismic waves as they go through the Earth prove?
What is the outer core of Earth?
Yellowstone erupted how long ago?
What is 600,000 years?
Solar intensity is greatest during this time of day.
What is Noon
The age of the universe?
What is 13.8 billion years
Half the distance between a planet's orbit and the center of mass.
What is the semi-major axis?
During fusion a star is trying to reach:
What is equilibrium?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a result of _______ ______ plate boundaries and results in _____ seafloor.
What is oceanic divergent and new
Devastating effects of a Supervolcano:
What is: global winter
loss of life
economic hardship
Deep ash for miles