| Astronomy | ||
| #1 | The Earth's sun is an average sized this. |
What is a star. |
| #2 | Other stars, like our sun, look like little points of lights in sky because of this. |
What is distance |
| #3 | Our moon orbits this. |
What is the Earth |
| #4 | The sun is more than a million times greater in this than the Earth. |
What is volume |
| #5 | The five major bodies in the solar system are these. |
What are planets, comets, moons, asteroids and the sun |
| miscellaneous | ||
| #1 | The interval of this topographic map is this number.
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What is 20 |
| #2 | Burning fossil fuels is one factor that can contribute to this. |
What is global warming |
| #3 | Studying earthquake waves have helped scientists determine this. |
What is the Earth's interior |
| #4 | Latitude travels in this direction (horizontally or vertically) |
What is horizontally |
| #5 | This side has the steepest slope.
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What is the west side |
| Weather | ||
| #1 | The condition of this at a certain time is weather. |
What is the atmosphere |
| #2 | Weather is caused by this. |
What is the uneven heating of the Earth's surface |
| #3 | The average year after year conditions. |
What is climate |
| #4 | The boundary between two air masses. |
What is a front |
| #5 | When air remains stationary over a large section of the Earth's surface, this is formed. |
What is an air mass |
| Geology | ||
| #1 | If you add heat and pressure to a rock it will become this type of rock. |
What is a metamorphic rock |
| #2 | A rock that undergoes weathering, erosion, compaction and cementation, this type of rock is formed. |
What is a sedimentary rock |
| #3 | When magma or lava cools, this type of rock is formed. |
What is an igneous rock |
| #4 | The thin layer of water on top of the Earth's surface. |
What is the hydrosphere |
| #5 | The earth's surface is covered with a rocky called this. |
What is the lithosphere or crust |
| Plate Tectonics | ||
| #1 | Geologists think that the movement of Earth's plate is caused by this. |
What is convection. |
| #2 | The Earth is divided into these three layers. |
What is the crust, mantle and core |
| #3 | When two plates are moving towards each other this type of plate boundary is formed. |
What is a convergent boundary |
| #4 | Volcanoes are most likely to form on this. |
What is a plate boundary |
| #5 | Tectonic plates move on top of the partially melted section of the mantle as heat is circulated through this process. |
What is convection |
| Final Question | |
A mineral that is black, has fracture, is metallic and is attracted to magnets is this type of rock. |
What is magnetite |
