Comets
A large frozen mass of gas and dust that has a regular orbit around the sun.
1. Comet
2. Meteor
What is a comet?
The sum total of all the water on Earth and its atmosphere is.
1. Biosphere
2. Terrasphere
3. Hydrosphere
4. Liquisphere
What is the Hydrosphere?
Which word best describes the eye of a hurricane?
1. Tranquil
2. Stormy
3. Windy
4. Cold
What is tranquil?
Which is closest to the age of the solar system?
1. 450,000 years old
2. 4.5 Million Years old
3. 450 Million Years old
4. 4.5 Billion Years old
4.5 Billion Years Old
What is meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and crema that is packed into a fried tortilla shell?
What is a taco?
One major difference between shooting stars and comets.
1. Shooting stars can be seen with the naked eye.
2. Shooting stars burn up in the Earth's atmosphere
3. Shooting stars have tails
4. Shooting stars are made up of hot gasses
Oceans, the atmosphere, ground water are all _________ in the water cycle.
1. Nodes
2. Sinks
3. Reservoirs
4. Stations
What is reservoirs?
In which state would a hurricane most likely occur?
1. Alaska
2. Florida
3. Montana
4. Colorado
What is Florida?
What force pulled the solar system together out of a cloud of gas and dust?
1. Gravity
2. Magnetic Force
What is gravity?
What is a traditionally Italian food that consists of bread crust, tomato sauce, basil, oregano, and topped with mozzarella cheese, and other meat/vegetable toppings?
What is pizza?
Location of the Kuiper belt.
1. Between Mars and Jupiter
2. Beyond the orbit of Neptune
What is beyond the orbit of Neptune?
What effect does the sun have on surface water?
1. It causes it to sink
2. It causes it to evaporate.
What is that it causes it to evaporate?
Which country would most likely be affected by a typhoon?
1. The United States
2. Japan
3. Spain
4. Brazil
What is Japan?
Which term best describes how the solar system formed?
1. Instantaneously
2. Gradually
3. Rapidly
4. Chemically
What is gradually?
What is sticky rice wrapped with nori/seaweed, and topped with raw fish, and typically eaten with chop sticks called?
What is Sushi?
What do comets have in common with the Earth?
1. They orbit the sun
2. They have North and South magnetic poles.
What is they orbit the Sun?
What is it called when rainwater contributes to the flow of rivers and streams?
1. Runoff
2. Irrigation
3. Desertification
What is Runoff?
A device used to help scientists determine where Hurricanes will occur.
1. Barometer
2. Satellites
3. Thermometer
4. Wind Chimes
What is satellites?
Which is a terrestrial planet?
1. Jupiter
2. Saturn
3. Mercury
4. Neptune
What is Mercury?
Traditional food topped with candles to celebrate one's birthday.
What causes comas to form around comets?
1. Speed
2. Light
3. Heat
4. Chemical Reactions
What is Heat?
Which reservoir in the water cycle contains the most water?
1. The ice caps
2. The oceans
3. Ground water
4. Surface water
What are oceans?
What happens immediately when a hurricane makes landfall?
1. It gets stronger
2. It gets weaker
3. It's wind speed picks up
4. It gets windier
What is that it gets weaker?
In terms of "Orbit" the Earth is to the Sun as "What" is to the Earth?
1. Mars
2. The Moon
3. A comet
4. Venus
What is the moon?
73 of these were eaten in under 10 minutes.
What is a hot dog?