Earth 1
If a continent is covered in ice, but once had a warm climate, what would MOST likely be discovered there?
What are fossils?
The continual movement of continental and ocean crust.
What is plate tectonics?
If a bucket of water is left outside or in a window facing sunlight and the water begins to disappear, what can you conclude is happening?
What is evaporation?
The current state of the atmosphere is known as this?
What is weather?
How the spectrum of hydrogen on a distant star would be described.
What is redshifted?
The layer of the Earth that is the hottest.
What is core?
The chain of Hawaiian Islands was formed by this.
What is a hotspot?
What characteristic of the Earth causes seasons?
What is the Earth's tilt?
The weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The event that forms elements heavier than iron.
What is a supernova?
Occurs when a fault line along Earth's crust slips.
What are Earthquakes?
The rising of hot magma and the sinking of cool magma will create this?
What is a convection current?
The equator would receive this kind of sunlight.
What is direct sunlight?
The layer of Earth contains water.
What is hydrosphere?
The event that combines two hydrogen atoms to form q helium atom?
What is nuclear fusion?
Fossil fuels are this kind of resource.
What is non-renewable?
Earth's largest layer.
What is the mantle?
The theory that states that all continents were once connected on a single landmass and are slowly drifting apart.
What is continental drift?
Soil is found is this layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
What scientists use to determine how old the solar system is.
What are comets and asteriods?
The molecules that trap in heat to keep Earth's climate stable.
What are greenhouse gases?
Biomass, wind and solar are examples of this type of energy.
What is renewable?
This kind of weather is associated with low air pressure.
What is poor weather?
The type of weather associated with high air pressure.
What is fair weather?
About 99 percent of the material in a stellar dust cloud that formed our solar system
was used to create our Sun. What did the remaining 1 percent form?
What are planets?