Earth Science
The Moon, Seasons, and Calendars
Maps
Matter & Minerals
Rocks & the Rock Cycle
100

The planet that we live on

What is Earth?


100

This is when the moon blocks out the sun's light

What is a solar eclipse?


100

The most accurate kind of map

What is a globe?

100

The most common element in Earth's crust

What is oxygen?


100

A natural, solid mixture of one or more types of mineral grains

What is a rock?

200

The layer of gases that surround Earth

What is the atmosphere?

200

The season that folks in Australia are experiencing right now

What is spring?

200

The two places where all lines of longitude meet

What are the North Pole and the South Pole?


200

The particles found in the nucleus of an atom

What are protons and neutrons?


200

The kind of rock that forms by cooling and crystallization of magma or lava

What is igneous rock?

300

The rigid outer layer of Earth, composed mostly of solid rock

What is the lithosphere?

300

The feature of Earth that causes its seasons

What is tilt?

300

The two things that closed loops represent on a topographic map

What are hills and craters?


300

A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid, with a definite chemical composition

What is a mineral?

300

Sediment usually made mostly of quartz mineral grains

What is sand?


400

The Earth systems that mankind inhabit

What is all of them?

400

This phase of the moon's cycle


What is a waxing gibbous?

400

On a topographic map, curves that connect points of equal elevation

What are contour lines?


400

Scarce minerals that are highly valued for their exceptional beauty

What are gems?

400
A sedimentary rock, sometimes formed in rivers, that contains a visible mixture of grain sizes, including fine sand and large pebbles

What is conglomerate?


500

The three major subdivisions of Earth Science

What are geology, oceanography, and meteorology?

500

The region around a star in which liquid water can exist on the surface of planets

What is the habitable zone?

500

The name of the first part of the geographic coordinates 39°N, 77°W

What is latitude?

500

The feature other than shininess and malleability that helps distinguish metals apart from nonmetals

What is high electric conductivity?

500

This type of rock is formed directly from any of the three types of rock in the rock cycle, deep under Earth's surface

What is metamorphic rock?