Show:
Natural Resources
The Water Cycle
Environmental Changes
Slow Changes
Rapid Changes
100
The wind and Sun are this type of natural resource?
What are renewable resources?
100
This powers the Water Cycle on Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
Which common material takes the longest to decompose? Plastic spoons, aluminum cans, or styrofoam cups?
What is styrofoam (Styrofoam does not decompose and should be avoided at all costs).
100
Which of the following was formed through a slow process of the Earth? The Washington Monument, the Mississippi River Delta, the Hoover Dam, Mt. Kilimanjaro
What is the Mississippi River Delta?
100
Which of the following can cause a rapid change to the surface of the Earth? Tornado, Wind, Water, or People
What is a Tornado?
200
Coal is a type of fossil fuel. Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable resources?
Because we use them more quickly than they form naturally.
200
This occurs when the Sun heats water in lakes, rivers, and oceans. As a result, water turns into vapor and rises.
What is evaporation?
200
What is one way you can reduce the amount of energy you use in your home?
There are many possible answers....
200
Which can cause a slow change to the Earth's surface? Typhoon, Volcano, Water, or a Tsunami
What is water?
200
Tectonic plates are constantly moving. What are two rapid changes caused by the movement of tectonic plates?
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain formations?
300
Name two natural resources found in Maryland that make it possible to heat our homes.
What are trees and coal (fossil fuels)?
300
Video Daily Double!!! Which number in the image correctly identifies condensation?
What is 4?
300
Through which process can we turn waste into usable material?
What is recycling?
300
The Grand Canyon, like most canyons, was formed through this slow moving process?
What is erosion?
300
The level of this, meaning how thick or sticky a substance is, in magma will determine how violent a volcanic eruption is.
What is viscosity?
400
All rocks are made up of these?
What are minerals?
400
Name three forms of precipitation.
What is hail, sleet, rain, or snow?
400
Name one of two factors that have had a significant negative impact on the Earth's supply of nonrenewable natural resources.
What are population growth and technology?
400
The process where new land is built up as rocks, sand, and sediment are displaced is known as this?
What is deposition?
400
The area around the Pacific Ocean where a significant number of volcanoes and Earthquakes occur is known as this?
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Rocks are a solid material made up of minerals. What are the three classifications of rocks based on the way they form?
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
500
What three things are necessary for a cloud to form?
What are water, dust or dirt, and a change in pressure or temperature?
500
Oysters and blue crabs have been historically important to both the economy and ecosystem of Maryland and the greater Chesapeake Bay region. Name one way humans have caused a decline in the population of these two species.
What are pollution, over-harvesting (crabbing/fishing), and loss of habitat (human development)?
500
I am a large, thick body of ice and snow that slowly erodes the Earth, displacing rocks, minerals, and soil as it moves.
What is a Glacier?
500
Name two ways in which hurricanes can cause immediate change to the surface of the Earth.
What are flooding and strong winds (uprooting trees, etc.)