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100
Outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
100
All rocks started as this
What is magma?
100
A spacecraft traveling from Jupiter from Earth will have to navigate through this natural obstacle
What is the asteroid belt?
100
What makes ocean water more dense than freshwater
What is salt/salinity?
100
Front represented by blue triangles and a high pressure zone
What is a cold front?
200
Most abundant gas in today's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
200
The two types of metamorphic rock
What is foliated and non-foliated?
200
The birthplace of a star
What is a nebula?
200
Higher high tide, lower low tide
What is spring tide?
200
An instrument that measures atmosphere pressure
What is a barometer?
300
The three main greenhouse gases
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor
300
The five characteristics of all minerals
What is natural, inorganic, crystalline structure, definite chemical composition, solid
300
The three things an HR Diagram quantifies
What is luminosity, temperature, and absolute magnitude
300
Colder water near poles sinks and warmer water near equator rises
What is deep ocean currents?
300
A line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure
What is an isobar?
400
The ozone layer is located here
What is the stratosphere?
400
Used to identify a mineral's hardness
What is the Moh's Hardness Scale?
400
The Big Bang theory is supported by three pieces of evidence
What is doppler effect, quasars, and microwave radiation
400
This is the reason why currents move in a circular pattern
What is the coriolis effect?
400
A line on a map connecting points having the same temperature
What is an isotherm?
500
The process that algae and other early organisms used to create oxygen
What is photosynthesis
500
The two types of weathering
What is mechanical and chemical?
500
The outer planets are referred to as ..........
What is gas giants?
500
Climate pattern where the water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator gets hotter than usual
What is El Nino?
500
The number of oceans on Earth
What is one?