Question 1

Why do we have seasons?

Accepted Answer

The earth is tilted, causing incoming sun rays to hit the rounded surface of the earth at different angles in opposite hemispheres

Question 2

What season is it when the earth is tilted towards the sun?

Accepted Answer

Summer

Question 3

What season is it when the earth is tilted away from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Winter

Question 4

What is a Solar Eclipse?

Accepted Answer

when the moon moves between the earth and the sun and casts a shadow on the sun

Question 5

How many high tides happen in 24 hours?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 6

Define Air Pollution

Accepted Answer

Presence of harmful substances in the air.

Question 7

Define Malnutrition

Accepted Answer

Condition from lack of food or unbalanced diet.

Question 8

What is Conservation?

Accepted Answer

Sustainable natural resource management.

Question 9

How do you describe Water Pollution?

Accepted Answer

Contamination of water bodies by harmful substances.

Question 10

What is done when you recycle?

Accepted Answer

Conversion of waste into reusable materials.

Question 11

Define Environmental Impact

Accepted Answer

Effects of human activities on the environment.

Question 12

How do you define Non-Renewable Resource

Accepted Answer

Resource not replenished at consumption rate, e.g., fossil fuels.

Question 13

What is Hydropower?

Accepted Answer

Electricity from harnessing flowing water's energy.

Question 14

Geothermal is energy from_________________________________________.

Accepted Answer

Energy from heat beneath Earth's surface.

Question 15

Define Biomass

Accepted Answer

Organic materials used as renewable energy source.

Question 16

What is Atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

The layer of gases surrounding Earth.

Question 17

What does BIO in Biosphere mean?

Accepted Answer

Life

Question 18

Where is the Geosphere located?

Accepted Answer

The solid part of the Earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.

Question 19

Hydrosphere means ______________________________

Accepted Answer

All the waters on the Earth's surface.

Question 20

What is the Inner Core

Accepted Answer

The solid innermost layer of Earth.

Question 21

What is the Outer Core?

Accepted Answer

The liquid layer of Earth's core.

Question 22

What does the word Crust refer to?

Accepted Answer

The outermost layer of Earth.

Question 23

Where is the Mantle Located?

Accepted Answer

The layer between the crust and the core.

Question 24

How is sedimentary rock formed?

Accepted Answer

Rock formed from compressed sediment.

Question 25

How do you make a Metamorphic rock?

Accepted Answer

Rock altered by pressure and heat.

Question 26

How is Igneous rock formed?

Accepted Answer

Rock formed from cooled magma or lava.

Question 27

What is the Rock Cycle?

Accepted Answer

The continuous process of rock formation and change.

Question 28

Define Weathering

Accepted Answer

The breaking down of rocks and minerals on Earth's surface.

Question 29

Define Magma

Accepted Answer

Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.

Question 30

Which shows the correct order of the 8 Phases of the Moon?

Accepted Answer

New Moon, Waxing crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, Waning Crescent

Question 31

Define Orbit

Accepted Answer

Path Earth takes as it revolves around the sun

Question 32

An Eclipse ____________________

Accepted Answer

Occurs when Earth or the moon passes through each other's shadow

Question 33

What happens during an Equinox?

Accepted Answer

Moment when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, leading to nearly equal day and night globally

Question 34

Solstice is an ________________________________________

Accepted Answer

Event occurring twice a year when the Sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky

Question 35

Tilt refers to the

Accepted Answer

Angle between Earth's rotational axis and its orbital plane, approximately 23.5 degrees

Question 36

Define Ocean Tide

Accepted Answer

Regular rise and fall of the ocean's surface caused by gravitational pull of the moon and sun

Question 37

Define Neap Tide

Accepted Answer

Tide with the least difference between high and low tide, smallest tides in the cycle

Question 38

What is a Spring Tide?

Accepted Answer

Exceptionally high or low tides due to aligned gravitational forces of the Sun and Moon

Question 39

Define High Tide

Accepted Answer

Point in tidal cycle when water level reaches its maximum height along a coastline or body of water

Question 40

Define Low Tide

Accepted Answer

Point in tidal cycle when water level reaches its minimum height along a coastline or body of water

Question 41

What is the difference between rotation and revolution?

Accepted Answer

Rotation is spinning motion on its axis, revolution is orbital motion around another object

Question 42

What is the angle of the Earth's Tilt?

Accepted Answer

23.5 degrees

Question 43

What causes the Earth's seasons?

Accepted Answer

Earth's tilt causes 4 seasons

Question 44

How many tides do we have total?

Accepted Answer

4: low, high, spring, neap

Question 45

What hemisphere are we located in

Accepted Answer

Northern Hemisphere

Question 46

What direction does the earth rotate?

Accepted Answer

Earth rotates counterclockwise

Question 47

Which is the Phase where the moon's lit portion is increasing?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Moon Phase

Question 48

In which phase is the Right half of the moon lit, the other half is not?

Accepted Answer

1st Quarter Moon Phase

Question 49

What is the Moon's Light Source

Accepted Answer

Sun

Question 50

How does the moon look in the 3rd Quarter?

Accepted Answer

Left half of the moon is lit, the other half is not

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