Miscellaneous
Vocab
Solar Effects
Natural Disasters
Earth's Structure
100

Name 3 Nonrenewable Resources

What are oil, natural gas, and coal or nuclear?

100

This is a split in the Earth's crust.

What is a fault?

100

This is the definition for rotation and what it causes.

What is the spinning motion of the planet Earth around its own axis, causing the cycle of day and night?

100

This is the substance that comes out of a volcano.

What is lava?

100

Name the earth's three main layers.

What is core, mantle, and crust?

200
Identify the four parts of the water cycle IN ORDER.

What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and accumulation?

200

Define and provide an example of Weathering and Erosion.

What is weathering is the breaking down of rocks like mechanical where rain seeps in and cracks rocks or chemical where chemicals dissolve rocks and erosion is the movement of weathered rocks like wind or water carrying rocks away?

200

This is the definition for revolution and what it causes.

What is the movement of Earth in its orbit around the Sun that causes seasons in the year?

200

A natural event that causes great damage and loss of life. 

What is a natural disaster?

200
Also known as the lithosphere, this is the layer on which life exists.

What is the crust?

300

Name 3 Renewable Resources.

What is hydro, solar, wind, biomass, or geothermal?

300

Define what are plate tectonics.

What are enormous moving pieces of the earth’s lithosphere?

300

This is the definition for solstice and what it causes.

What is the longest or shortest daylight in the year and causes the start of summer or winter?

300

The term for the substance inside of the earth that causes volcanoes.

What is magma?

300

This layer holds in gases and the heat from the sun which allows life to exist on earth.

What is the atmosphere?

400

Name the difference between weather and climate.

What is weather is the short-term changes and climate is the conditions over a long period of time?

400

Describe Continental Drift Theory.

What is that the earth was once a supercontinent that divided and slowly drifted apart over millions of years?

400

This is the definition for equinox and what it causes.

What is equal amount of daylight and darkness and causes the start of fall or spring?

400

This is the device used to measure earthquakes.

What is a seismograph?

400

This layer of the earth is solid due to the immense pressure that it is under. 

What is the inner core?

500

Identify the 5 climate zones.

What is tropical, temperate, dry, polar, and highlands/continental?

500

Name the four meanings of each "sphere":

1. Lithosphere

2. Biosphere

3. Hydrosphere

4. Atmosphere

What is:

1. Land

2. Life

3. Water

4. Air?

500

What is 23.5 degrees?

This is the degree of Earth's tilt.

500

A hurricanes strength is measured by this.

What is wind speed?

500

Plate tectonics is driven by the movement of this layer.

What is the mantle?