Hot Diggity Dog
__________ is the transfer of energy through direct contact. Example. Putting out a burning marshmallow with your bare hand.
Conduction
What kind of rock is this layered rock? Fossils are typically found here.
Sedimentary
All weather is energy in motion. Where does this energy come from?
The Sun's Radiation
Carbon Dioxide is considered what type of gas that relates to climate change?
Greenhouse Gas.
Considered the happiest animal on the internet this marsupial lives in Australia and is about the size of a cat.
The Quokka
_____________ is the transfer of energy through waves. Example: Heat produced from a campfire
Radiation
This type of plate boundary is formed when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
Divergent Boundary.
What does the "L" represent on a weather map?
Low Pressure
Where is methane gas produced "naturally"?
Animals/Cows Burps and Farts
This animal is scaly, from "down-under" and possess a blue tongue.
The Blue-Tongue Skink
______________ is the transfer of energy through a medium such as a liquid or a gas. Example: Hot air rising above a campfire
What is the name of the supercontinent that all the continents made about 300 million years ago?
Pangea
Which layer of the atmosphere does weather take place?
Troposphere
What is the term to describe the maximum number of a population that an ecosystem can sustain.
Carrying Capacity
Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the worlds largest nocturnal primate that has incredibly long fingers.
When does a car no longer have kinetic energy?
When it stops moving.
What is molten rock called under the ground?
Magma
What part of the water cycle is when water changes from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
This term refers to a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. It causes the shells of animals not to develop.
Ocean Acidification
Native to North American and the Yellowstone ecosystem this herbivore is called the wrecking ball of the rockies because the males often collide with each other to display dominance
Big Horn Sheep
What (object(s)) would you use to MINIMIZE thermal energy transfer?
An Insulator
What is the zone or term to describe when a more dense tectonic plate goes under the less dense tectonic plate?
Subduction Zone
This type of front forms when a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses.
Occluded Front
What are the deep-ocean currents called that are driven by differences in the water's density, which is controlled by temperature and salinity (salt).
Thermohaline circulation
This bird species struts it's stuff each year in the grasslands of north America where males and females congregate in areas called Leks
Greater Sage Grouse