Generally Speaking
This is the study of the lithosphere, especially pertaining to rocks and minerals.
What is geology?
This is the the distance north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
If in theory, the Earth was split into 24 time zones (one per each hour of the day), this would be the number of degrees wide each time zone would be.
What is 15 degrees?
(360 / 24 = 15)
The first day of winter and the first day of summer are both known as an astronomical event called this.
What is a solstice?
The sublimation of dry ice is what is often used for a spooky vapor effect, almost like a ghost. This is what dry ice is made of.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
This is the study of atmospheric conditions, both locally and over a vast area or period of time.
What is meteorology?
Closely spaced contour lines indicate this type of slope.
What is steep?
Every planet does this around the Sun in its own elliptical orbit.
What is revolves?
OR What is revolution?
This explorer was credited with being the first to circumnavigate the Earth.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
The "Demon Core" was a cursed object, a 6.2 kilogram mass of this radioactive element, intended to be installed in a nuclear weapon. Thankfully, it never got used, since Japan surrender after two prior nuclear strikes in World War II.
What is plutonium?
This is the study of celestial objects and the universe as a whole.
What is astronomy?
[No points given to astrology, which is pseudoscience.]
This is the difference between the highest elevation and the lowest elevation in an area.
What is relief?
Each day, the Earth spins around once on its axis, like a tilted top. The spinning is called Earth's ________.
What is rotation?
An isoseismal is an isoline indicative of this kind of measurement.
What is earthquake intensity?
OR what is seismic activity?
This is ranked by a major online candy website as the worst Halloween candy of both 2022 & 2023.
What is/are Circus Peanuts?
This is the packet you will have to navigate in order to help you answer the majority of questions on the Earth Science Regents.
What is/are the Earth Science Reference Tables?
OR What is the ESRT?
There are three main types of landforms. Name AND explain at least two of them.
What are plains, mountains, & plateaus?
[Plus definitions]
[No credit for anything less than naming AND explaining two of them.]
Earth is not a perfect sphere, but rather this shape, due to bulging around the equatorial region.
What is an oblate spheroid?
OR What is an oblique spheroid?
Latitude in the Northern Hemisphere is based upon the altitude of this star, commonly called the North Star.
What is Polaris?
At one point, this pepper was the hottest on record (about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units)! It is perfect for Halloween, given the fact its spooky name is this.
What is the (Carolina) Reaper?
This is the name of the man credited with discovering continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
[Points allowed for just the last name; half-points for only guessing the first name in full.]
V-shaped contour lines, with the bottom of the V pointing uphill, indicate this. (Hint: A river is often involved.)
What is a valley?
Eratosthenes was able to calculate this measurement of the Earth with decent accuracy.
What is circumference?
This is the amount of water that leaves a system (in a specific location over a certain amount of time).
What is discharge?
The notebooks of this two-time Nobel Prize winner are kept in a lead-lined case in Paris, due to their ever-present radioactivity.
Who was Marie Curie?