Name a renewable energy source
Solar, Wind (Eolic) , Water (Hydro), Tidal, Geothermal, Biomass
The curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet or moon. Generally elliptical in shape
What is an orbit?
The age of the Earth
What is approximately 4.5 billion years?
The process when ice gets inside a rock, freezes and breaks the rock.
What is physical weathering?
The 1st step of the scientific method is:
The formation of coal starts in this location with this type of material.
What is marshes and swamps and dead plants?
The main difference between the inner and outer planets of our solar system.
What is the inner are rocky and the outer are gaseous?
The type of rock that forms the continental crust and the oceanic crust.
What is Continental = igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary and Oceanic = basalt rock?
This type of boundary is responsible for seafloor spreading
What is divergent?
Sunbathing at the beach, the type of heat transfer is happening to my body
What is radiation?
The three main types of fossil fuels
What are coal, oil and natural gas?
Law that states a planet covers the same area of it's orbit during equal time periods no matter the speed of the planet during that time period.
What is Kepler's 2nd law?
A Mars sized protoplanet collided with Earth throwing this much of Earth's mass into orbit which formed this.
What is approximately 20% of it's mass to form the Moon?
weathering and erosion
The less accurate form of dating used to determine the age of fossils, rocks etc.
What is Relative Dating?
What natural gas is mainly.
What is Methane CH4?
The type of star that potentially ends it's life cycle as a black hole.
What is a massive star?
This liquid metal layer is less dense than the inner core but more dense than the mantle, where Earth's magnetic field is generated.
What is the outer core?
Requirements to turn sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
A new planet is discovered in our solar system, it is 94.5 AU from the sun, the distance it is from the sun in million km. (1 AU = 150 mil. km)
What is 14,175 million km?
The main issue with burning fossil fuels and it's impact on the environment.
What is we will eventually run out, it increases the CO2 in the atmosphere which contributes to acid rain, other pollution and global warming?
Temperature at the core of our sun.
What is 15.6 million degrees C?
Movement of tectonic plates resulting current configuration of the continents.
What is continental drift?
Layers of the mantle just below the Earth's crust
What are the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere?
The 5 key components of a graph.
What are the Title, y-Axis label, x-axis label, clear and neat data and units.