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What does a star’s color indicate? Its temperature Blue – hottest Reds- cooler Category 1 $100 Answer

Why do astronomers put telescopes in space rather than on Earth? To avoid the interference of the atmosphere. Category 1 $200 Answer

What are the two distinctions between the inner and outer planets? Terrestrial or rocky Gas Giants Category 1 $300 Answer

H-R diagram shows what information about the stars? Surface temperature and the absolute magnitude (remember absolute is compared at same distance, apparent is how bright they appear to be from earth) Category 1 $400 Answer

What is the composition of the atmosphere? 78% Nitrogen 21% Oxygen 1% trace gases (CO2, water vapor, etc.) Category 1 $500 Answer

The type of precipitation that is formed by freezing in mid air. Sleet Category 2 $100 Answer

How would you describe a cirroculumus cloud? Cirro – high Cumulus - puffy Category 2 $200 Answer

An area where air masses meet and cause weather events. Fronts Named for who is moving: cold front warm front stationary front occluded front Category 2 $300 Answer

Describe the job of an anemometer and a barometer Anemometer – measures wind speed Barometer – wind pressure (in millibars) Category 2 $400 Answer

Why is the Earth’s inner core solid and the outer is fluid? Although the inner core is hotter, there is more pressure, keeping it solid. The outer core is more fluid and causes the earth to have a magnetic field. Category 2 $500 Answer

What theories were combined to create the plate tectonics theory? Continental drift (Pangaea) Seafloor Spreading (mid ocean ridge and subduction) Category 3 $100 Answer

Identify the motion each boundary makes: Convergent divergent transform Convergent – comes together (compression) Divergent – pulls apart (tension) Transform – slips past (strike –slip) Category 3 $200 Answer

Are the plates of the Earth still moving? Yes, at about a rate of 2 cm per year. (that is how quickly average people’s fingernails grow) Category 3 $300 Answer

Which type of crust typically subducts and why? Oceanic crust is less dense than continental crust, so when they bump into each other, oceanic subducts. Oceanic/oceanic – older denser stays up Continental/continental – form folds and mountains Category 3 $400 Answer

Describe the differences between chemical and mechanical weathering. Chemical is breaking down rock using chemical reactions Mechanical breaking down the rock using physical means Category 3 $500 Answer

How are erosion and weathering different? Weathering just breaks down the rock Erosion moves the pieces away and deposits in another area. Category 4 $100 Answer

Saltatation, abrasion, and deflation are all types of what kind of erosion? Wind erosion Category 4 $200 Answer

What are the three types of rock? Sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous Category 4 $300 Answer

Name 2 types of mass movements of soil or rock. Land slides Mud flows Rock slides Creep –(slow moving) Category 4 $400 Answer

Can you identify the forces that caused this erosion? Category 4 $500 Answer Water

Name two of the 4 types of wetlands Marshes –dominated by soft stemmed vegetation Swamps– woody plants Bogs -freshwater wetlands with spongy peat deposits, evergreen trees and shrubs, and a floor covered by moss Fens- grasses, reeds and wildflowers Category 5 $100 Answer

The area where all the water drains into a certain sight (big bathtub) Watershed Category 5 $200 Answer

Which of the following could hit you in the head here on Earth Which of the following could hit you in the head here on Earth? Meteor Meteorite Meteoid Meteorite – this is a meteoroid after it has entered Earth’s atmosphere Category 5 $300 Answer

AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE Can you sing any words to this song? The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen was built into helium at temperatures of millions of degrees… Category 5 $400 Answer

Who is energy man and how does he get here, dude? Energy “man” comes to earth on electromagnetic WAVES “rad”iation Convection Conduction Category 5 $500 Answer