| Category 1 | ||
| #1 | The color of a mineral under white light | Mineral Color |
| #2 | The feel of a mineral | Mineral Texture |
| #3 | The process in which materials such as rocks are broken down by things in nature such as wind and water | Weathering |
| #4 | Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water or ice | Sediments |
| #5 | The hardest gemstone | Diamond |
| Category 2 | ||
| #1 | The movements of Earth's crust due to plate shifting | Earthquake |
| #2 | The process in which small particles of soil are broken down and carried away by glaciers, water and wind | Erosion |
| #3 | The movements of Earth's crust through which molten lava, ash and gases are ejected | Volcano |
| #4 | The downward sliding of a relatively dry mass of Earth and rock | Landslide |
| #5 | A high- speed, meandering wind current moving from a Westerly direction at high speeds | Jet Stream |
| Category 3 | ||
| #1 | Weather over an extended period of time | Climate |
| #2 | Atmospheric conditions at a given time and place | Weather |
| #3 | The amount of water vapor in the air. Measured by a hydrometer. | Humidity |
| #4 | Any form of water such as rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the Earth's surface | Precipitation |
| #5 | The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment | Temperature |
| Category 4 | ||
| #1 | The force exerted by the weight of the air | Air pressure |
| #2 | Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger that 0.2 inches in diameter | Hail |
| #3 | When a gas turns into a liquid by cooling the gas | Condensation |
| #4 | When a liquid becomes a gas usually by heating the liquid | Evaporation |
| #5 | Precipitation consisting of generally transparent frozen, or partially frozen raindrops | Sleet |
| Category 5 | ||
| #1 | The interface between air masses of different temperatures or densities | Fronts |
| #2 | A transition zone between two nearly stationary air masses of different density | Stationary Front |
| #3 | The leading portion of a cold atmospheric air mass moving against and eventually replacing a warm air mass | Cold Front |
| #4 | A front along which an advancing mass of warm air rises over a mass of cold air | Warm Front |
| #5 | A warm ocean current of the Northern Atlantic Ocean off Eastern N. America | Gulf Stream |
| Final Question | |
| The mixture of sediment, humus, air, and water that covers most of the land on Earth's surface | Soil |