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Earth's Motion
Planets
Processes that Shape Earth
Rock Formation
Earth's Resources
100
The amount of time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation on its axis.
What is 24hrs.?
100
The third planet from the Sun
What is Earth?
100
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The three major types of rocks.
What sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous?
100
Fossil fuels
What nonrenewable resources?
200
Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotating?
200
The farthest planet from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
200
Transporting sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
Rocks formed out of cooling magma or lava.
What are igneous rocks?
200
Using a smaller amount of a resource.
What is to reduce or conserve?
300
365 days
What is the time it takes Earth to revolve around the Sun one time?
300
A path that the planets follow around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
300
The dropping of sediment by flowing water, wind, or glaciers when their movement slows or stops.
What is deposition?
300
Rocks formed when their minerals are transformed by extreme heat or pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Using something over again
What is reuse?
400
The degree Earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
The outer planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
400
This causes and earthquake.
What is the shifting of plates underground.
400
Rocks formed by bits of weathered rock or remains of tiny organisms being pressed together into a solid mass.
What sedimentary rocks?
400
Water, wind, plants
What are renewable resources?
500
Caused by Earth's tilt on its axis.
What are the seasons?
500
The planet with the most number of moons.
What is Jupiter?
500
A place where molten rock from deep underground can reach the surface.
What is a volcano?
500
Solids that occur naturally and have a definite structure and chemical composition.
What are minerals?
500
Three alternative energy sources.
What are solar, hydro and wind energy?