Water and Earth
The step of the water cycle in which liquid water becomes gaseous vapor
What is evaporation?
Something humans create that can poison, kill, and devastate ecosystems and organisms within them.
What is pollution?
The term for energy in its "active" state.
What is kinetic energy?
The state a circuit must be in in order to function.
What is closed?
The positively charged particle of an atom.
What is a proton?
The term for the motion of Earth's magma inside the mantle.
What is convection?
The term for a resource that comes back on its own in a short period of time.
What is a renewable resource?
The point of a roller coaster that MUST be the highest.
What is the first hill?
The term for the force of acceleration in a moving object.
What is thrust / propulsion?
The name of the technology that makes freshwater out of salt water.
What is desalination?
The largest source of freshwater on planet Earth
What are icebergs / glaciers?
The name of the machine used to create electricity from wind, water, burning coal, and nuclear fusion.
What is a turbine?
The three types of thermal energy.
What are convection, conduction, and radiation?
The three things necessary for communication to be possible.
What are encoding, decoding, and signal?
The only three colors humans can truly see.
What are red, green, and blue?
Waves taking sand away from a beach.
What is an example of erosion?
The term for organisms that consume animals that eat plants.
What is a secondary consumer?
The reason magnets are magnetic.
What are electrons spinning in the same direction?
The charge of a battery that forces electrons down the line.
What is a negative charge?
The three types of tectonic boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
The five main layers of Earth, in order from outermost to innermost.
What is:
The Crust
The Asthenosphere
The Mantle
The Outer Core
The Inner Core
The three types of symbiotic relationships.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
The term for all forms of light.
The names of the four forces that buildings, bridges, and other structures must resist to be successful.
What are compression, torsion, shear, and tension?
The names of Mr. Sheridan's three dogs.
What are Kovu, Morpheus, and Laethander?