Can humans breathe normally in space as they can on Earth?
What is No
100
What is the term for the complete disappearance of a species?
What is Extinction
100
What is the name of the world’s largest reef system?
What is the Great Barrier Reef
100
A thermometer is a device used to measure what?
What is Temperature
200
Does the Sun orbit the Earth?
What is No
200
In order for metamorphic rock to become igneous rock,
what must happen?
What is melt, then cool
200
What are the two components of the environment?
What is the biotic (plants, animals and microbes) and the abiotic (non-living component).
200
Do male or female mosquitoes bite people?
What is Female
200
Blizzards feature low temperatures, strong winds and heavy _______?
What is Snow
300
Which EM radiation highlights heat?
What is Infrared
300
When igneous rock is weathered and eroded, what type of
rock does it become?
What is sedimentary
300
What is oxygen depletion?
What is organisms consume the oxygen present in water. This reduces the oxygen content of the water.
300
What are the 3 R’s of recycling?
What is Reduce, reuse and recycle
300
What is the driest desert on Earth, the Sahara, the Kalahari or the Atacama?
What is The Atacama Desert
400
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong
400
Rock that cools below the Earth's surface is what type?
What is intrusive igneous rock
400
What nitrogen containing chemical in artificial fertilisers can cause pollution?
What is Nitrate
400
What famous islands west of Ecuador were extensively studied by Charles Darwin?
What is the Galapagos Islands
400
What country experiences the most tornadoes?
What is the USA
500
Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on which planet?
What is Mars
500
What type of rock do you think is at a subduction zone
(convergent boundary)?
What is metamorphic, under a lot of heat and pressure
500
How does municipal waste contribute to air pollution?
What is Municipal waste consists of organic matter. The decomposition of this under anaerobic conditions produces methane. Methane produces carbon monoxide on oxidation.
500
Ayers Rock in Australia is also know as what?
What is Ayers Rock in Australia is also know as what?
500
Balls or irregular lumps of ice that fall from clouds (often during thunderstorms) are known as what?