Showdown
Land, Water & Ice
Minerals & Metals
Farming
100

This adjective describing metals means it can be dented or shaped.

Answer: What is malleable?

100

This frozen feature covers large, flat areas of land—Antarctica is famous for having them.

Answer: What is an ice sheet?

100

This shiny metal is used for jewelry, coins, and electrical parts.

Answer: What is silver?

100

This farming technique plants rows following the natural curves of a hill.

Answer: What is contour plowing?
200

The most abundant metal on earth.

Answer: What is aluminium?
200

Unlike Antarctica, this pole sits on floating ice rather than solid land.

Answer: What is the North Pole?

200

I need to use this metal to make electricity wires for my home. 

Answer: What is copper?

200

The name for the reason I plant soybeans to prevent erosion.

Answer: What is ground cover?

300

A magnet can attracts this metal.

Answer: What is iron?

300

These large bodies of slow-moving ice are mostly found in mountains.

Answer: What are glaciers?

300

This metal is an indicator of wealth.

Answer: What is gold?

300

Mr. Stevenson has added fertilizers to his crops and has rotated the crops planted in each field. He should let his fields do this.

Answer: What is lie fallow?

400

A major affect of the temperature and amount of precipitation on land.

Answer: What is the ocean?
400

The process by which water vapor forms clouds after cooling.

Answer: What is condensation?

400

This process used to separate metal in an ore from the other materials.

Answer: What is smelting?

400

GPS stands for these words.

Answer: What is global positioning system?
500

This must be done when groundwater is chemically polluted.


Answer: What is pumped out and cleaned?

500

This is water located under the surface of the earth.

What is groundwater?

500

These materials have usable amounts of metal in them?

Answer: What is ore?

500

This part of the water cycle returns to the atmosphere through plants.

Answer: What is transpiration?