What are the two types of crust on Earth?
a.) Lithosphere and asthenosphere
b.) Oceanic and continental
c.) Sedimentary and metamorphic
What is oceanic and continental?
100
What is the formula for speed?
What is speed = distance/time?
100
What are the three types of rocks?
What is igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks?
100
Abiotic factors are non-living factors on our Earth, biotic factors are living factors on our Earth. Which is an example of an abiotic factor? (May be more than one answer!)
a.) Cactus
b.) Mountains
c.) Grass
d.) Rocks
What is b. and d.?
100
Which of the following statements are false? (May have many answers!)
a.) Science has improved humans overall health, but we still live short lives.
b.) Science is important but doesn't happen every day.
c.) Science helps humans do many things
d.) Science solves every problem on Earth.
What is a, b, and d.
200
What type of rock forms when sediments compact and cement together?
a.) Igneous rock
b.) Sedimentary rock
c.) Metamorphic rock
What is sedimentary rock?
200
If Gavin hits a baseball 324 feet and it travels for 9 seconds, what is it's speed in feet per second?
What is 36 feet per second?
200
Weathering-erosion-deposition all lead to which type of rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
200
How would you measure 7 mL of vinegar?
a.) Meterstick
b.) Ruler
c.) Graduated cylinder
d.) Balance
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
Science discoveries come from
a.) Geniuses
b.) People from the U.S. only
c.) People from all over the world
d.) This week only
What is people from all over the world?
300
When rock breaks down into smaller pieces known as sediments, _____________, happened.
a.) Compaction and cementation
b.) Weathering
c. Deposition
What is weathering?
300
What is the formula for acceleration?
What is final velocity-starting velocity/time?
300
Sedimentary rock turns into _______________________ rock when heat and pressure is applied, also known as metamorphism.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Look at the following food chain:
Grass-Cricket-Mouse-Owl.
What would happen if owls were eliminated from this food chain?
a.) The mouse population would decrease
b.) The mouse population would increase
c.) The grass population would increase
What is the mouse population would increase?
300
What happens to animals when humans expand onto their habitats?
a.) Animals move into humans' houses
b.) Animals retreat farther into forests
c.) Animals cause deforestation
What is animals retreat farther into forests?
400
_______________ means to transport sediments to a new location and ________________ means sediments being dropped in their new location.
a.) Weathering and erosion
b.) Erosion and deposition
c.) Deposition and weathering
What is erosion and deposition?
400
There are two types of energy, kinetic and potential. Kinetic energy is energy in motion and potential energy is stored energy. Think of a roller coaster. A roller coaster has what type of energy at the top of a hill? What about as it goes down the hill?
What is potential then kinetic energy?
400
What are the five layers of the Earth?
What is the lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core?
400
When two organisms are in competition,
a.) They want to use different resources
b.) They want to use the same resources
c.) They both die
What is they want to use the same resources?
400
How are magnets and the Earth's magnetic force similar?
a.) Nothing
b.) They both only have positive poles
c.) They both have positive and negative poles
What is they both have positive and negative poles?
500
Plate tectonics are responsible for which of the following?
a.) Volcanoes
b.) Earthquakes
c.) Mountains
d.) All of the above
What is all of the above?
500
Which situation has the most kinetic energy?
a.) Ms. Dinnan throwing a ball to her dog
b.) Cam pushing a dresser across the floor
c.) A car traveling 50 miles per hour on River Road
d.) A lava flow moving at 17 miles per hour
What is a car traveling 50 miles per hour on River Road?
500
What causes tectonic plates to move around the surface of our Earth?
a.) Gravity
b.) The magma flowing in the mantle
c.) Oceans
d.) Pressure
What is the magma flowing in the mantle?
500
Primary consumers eat plants and secondary consumers eat plant-eating animals. If a deer eats shrubs, what kind of consumer is it?
What is a primary consumer?
500
Atoms and molecules in a gas are spaced far apart and move fast past each other. What does that mean the molecules and atoms in a solid are doing?
a.) Not moving at all
b.) Moving slowly and close together
c.) Getting smaller