Fossil Fuels
Astronomy
History of the Earth
Materials & Processes
Miscellaneous
100

Name a renewable energy source

Solar, Wind (Eolic) , Water (Hydro), Tidal, Geothermal, Biomass

100

The curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet or moon. Generally elliptical in shape

What is an orbit?

100

The age of the Earth

What is approximately 4.5 billion years?

100

The process when ice gets inside a rock, freezes and breaks the rock.

What is physical weathering?

100

The 1st step of the scientific method is:

Make an observation 
200

The formation of coal starts in this location with this type of material.

What is marshes and swamps and dead plants?

200

The main difference between the inner and outer planets of our solar system.

What is the inner are rocky and the outer are gaseous?

200

The type of rock that forms the continental crust and the oceanic crust.

What is Continental = igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary and Oceanic = basalt rock?

200

This type of boundary is responsible for seafloor spreading

What is divergent? 

200

Sunbathing at the beach, the type of heat transfer is happening to my body

What is radiation?

300

The three main types of fossil fuels

What are coal, oil and natural gas?

300

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?

300

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?

300
What process during the rock cycle makes a metamorphic rock into sediments?

weathering and erosion

300

The less accurate form of dating used to determine the age of fossils, rocks etc.

What is Relative Dating?

400

What natural gas is mainly.

What is Methane CH4?

400

The type of star that potentially ends it's life cycle as a black hole.

What is a massive star?

400

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?

400

Requirements to turn sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock.

What are heat and pressure?

400

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?

500

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?

500

Temperature at the core of our sun.

What is 15.6 million degrees C?

500

Movement of tectonic plates resulting current configuration of the continents.

What is continental drift?

500

Layers of the mantle just below the Earth's crust

What are the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere?

500

The 5 key components of a graph.

What are the Title, y-Axis label, x-axis label, clear and neat data and units.