Weather
Rocks and Minerals
Astronomy
Plate Tectonics, EQs, and Volcanoes
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
100

The atmospheric layer that we live in.

What is Troposphere?

100

The color of the mineral in powdered form

What is streak?

100

The diagram that plots temperature and luminosity of starts

What is a H-R Diagram?

100

The name of the supercontinent.

What is Pangea?

100

Length x Width

What is area?

100

The smallest unit of an element

What is an atom?

200
Heat transfer due to materials touching.
What is conduction?
200

The hardest mineral.

What is a diamond?

200

The birthplace of stars.

What is a nebula?

200

The type of plate movement that slides past eachother.

What are transform boundries?

200

The part of the experiment that is being measured.

What is the dependent variable?

200

Two or more elements chemically combined.

What is a compound?

300

The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place.

What is weather?

300

These type of igneous rocks cool at the surface as lava.

What is extrusive rocks?

300

The brightness of a star as seen from Earth.

What is apparent magnitude?

300
Cracks in the Earth's crust.
What are faults?
300

The type of change that burning a log is.

What is a chemical change?

300

Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons

What are subatomic particles?

400

The three major greenhouse gases.

What is Methane, CO2, and Water vapor?

400

Light colored igneous rocks.

What is felsic?

400

Category of stars that is fueled by Hydrogen Fusion

What is the main sequence?

400
The area in the Pacific Ocean surrounded by the volcanoes.
What is the ring of fire?
400

The X-axis on a graph.

What is the independent variable?

500

The type of weather where air flows from high to low pressure.

What is wind?

500
A mineral that breaks along flat planes.

What is cleavage?

500

The most common type of galaxy.

What is a spiral?

500
When one plate slips under another at converging plate boundries.
What is subduction?
500

The amount of matter in a given space.

What is density?