Astronomy
The action of one surface, material, or object rubbing against another
What is FRICTION?
The decayed remains of once-living creatures
What is HUMUS?
A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules
What is AIR PRESSURE?
Two or more atoms linked together to make a substance with unique properties
What is a MOLECULE?
A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change that object’s velocity
What is FORCE?
A natural satellite of Earth
What is THE MOON?
The major carrier of sediments that makes them settle out in layers
What is WATER?
The cloud type that has a white, puffy, flat-bottomed shape
What is CUMULUS?
The name of the temperature at which a liquid, after heat is applied, becomes a gas?
What is BOILING POINT?
Every magnet has these; even if you cut a magnet in half, they will form on either end
What are NORTH AND SOUTH POLES?
When the Moon perfectly shields the sun’s light so that only it’s atmosphere is visible
What is A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE?
The most common rock type in the Grand Canyon
What is SEDIMENTARY ROCK?
The cycle that includes water traveling from Earth to the sky (evaporation), then forming clouds (condensation), and finally falling back to Earth in the form of rain, snow, or other moisture (precipitation)
What is the HYDROLOGIC (or WATER) CYCLE?
The three basic types of particles that make up an atom
What are PROTONS, NEUTRONS, and ELECTRONS?
The term that we use to describe when some, but not all, light is able to pass through a material
What is TRANSLUCENT?
The correct term for the side of the Moon that we cannot see from Earth
What is “FAR SIDE OF THE MOON?”
The only type of fossilization where the organic material is chemically changed into rock and is 3-dementional.
What is PETRIFICATION?
Warm advancing air that will move over a mass of cold air
What is A WARM FRONT?
A plastic milk container is an example of this type of polymer
What is a MAN-MADE POLYMER?
Space has no material, so movies set in space get it wrong if they include this in a scene when something explodes
What is SOUND?
The proper three names of celestial objects, from largest to smallest, when they are outside Earth’s atmosphere, when they are in the Earth’s atmosphere, and finally when they land on Earth.
What are METEOROIDS - METEORS - METEORITES?
The four major layers of Earth from innermost to outermost
What are INNER CORE, OUTER CORE, MANTLE, CRUST?
Three regular movements of ocean water
What are WAVES, TIDES, and CURRENTS?
Taste chalky or bitter, are slippery to the touch, and receive hydrogen atoms
What are BASES?
This has to do with the distance from wave crest to wave crest
What is WAVELENGTH?