1. Earth Science Fall Final Edition

2. Categories $300 $200 $100 $400 $500 SolarSystemStarsPlateTectonicsUniverse & Big Bang RocksLocation E.S.

3. $100 A: The amount of time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun. http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/MarsOrbit/2MarsOrbit-MarsEarth.jpg

4. $100 Q: What is 1 year?

5. $200 A: The latitude of the North Pole. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Arctic_Ocean.png/275px-Arctic_Ocean.png

6. $200 Q: What is 90 degrees North?

7. $300 A: Crossing over this line will cause you to gain or lose a day on the calendar.

8. $300 Q: What is the international date line? http://aa.usno.navy.mil/graphics/dateline_color.gif

9. $400 A: The number of days in the lunar cycle.

10. $400 Q: What is 29.5 days?

11. $500 A: The reason that the constellations appear to rise and set across the sky each night.

12. $500 Q: What is because the Earth is rotating on its axis once every 24 hours? http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/earth_rotation.jpg

13. $100 A: The type of rock that has a name that means from fire.

14. $100 Q: What is igneous? http://www.eoearth.org/files/165901_166000/165915/diorite.jpg

15. $200 A: The type of rock formed when small pieces are compacted and cemented together. http://geology.com/rocks/pictures/breccia.jpg

16. $200 Q: What is sedimentary rock?

17. $300 A: This type of rock can be foliated (have bands) or nonfoliated (no bands). http://scitastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Meta01.jpg

18. $300 Q: What is metamorphic rock?

19. $400 A: Rocks are composed of one or more of these substances ; we tested the hardness of these substances in one of our labs.

20. $400 Q: What are minerals? http://www.bgsd.k12.wa.us/hml/jr_cam/scienc e/rocks/images/minerals.jpg

21. $500 A: The type of rock that would be found at position A on the diagram.

22. $500 Q: What is igneous rock?

23. $100 A: The sixth planet from the Sun.

24. $100 Q: What is Saturn? http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/saturn.jpg

25. $200 A: This object contains 99% of the mass in our solar system.

26. $200 Q: What is the Sun? http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/primer/primer_graphics/Sun.png

27. $300 A: Name one of two characteristics that all of the inner planets have in common.

28. $300 Q: What is they are small and rocky? http://www.solstation.com/stars/terr2.gif

29. $400 A: The age of Earth in billions of years.

30. $400 Q: What is around 5 (actually 4.6) billion years? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/images/earth_apollo17.jpg

31. $500 A: The planet that has seasons similar to Earth.

32. $500 Q: What is Mars? http://sos.noaa.gov/images/Solar_System/mars.jpg

33. $100 A: The color of star with the coolest temperature.

34. $100 Q: What is red? http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2000/cycle/redgiant.gif

35. $200 A: Many stars fuse hydrogen into this element.

36. $200 Q: What is helium? http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/images/helium.jpg

37. $300 A: The stage of the star life cycle that our Sun is currently going through.

38. $300 Q: What is the main sequence? http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/les1/les1gifs/main.gif

39. $400 A: A collapsed star with an extremely strong gravitational pull.

40. $400 Q: What is a black hole? http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/blackholesse.jp g

42. $500 A: The name of the dark lines that are used to determine the chemical elements that make up a star.

43. $500 Q: What are absorption lines (bands)? http://content4.bestthinking.com/s/1/topics/499/images/56aca3e5-3125-49f4-be09- 300b3271a77c_972.jpeg

44. $100 A: The name of the theory that describes the beginning of the universe.

45. $100 Q: What is the Big Bang theory?

46. $200 A: The name of our galaxy.

47. $200 A: What is the Milky Way galaxy? http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/images/galaxies/m31_small.gif

48. $300 A: Between ultraviolet and infrared, the type of wave that carries more energy. http://www.darvill.clara.net/emag/images/scale.jpg

49. $300 Q: What is ultraviolet?

50. $400 A: The age of the universe.

51. $400 Q: What is 14 billion years old?

52. $500 A: The change in the visible spectrum that indicates the universe is still expanding and objects are moving away from Earth.

53. $500 Q: What is the red-shift? http://planetfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/redshift.jpg

54. $100 A: The location where subduction is occurring on the map.

55. $100 Q: What is letter F?

56. $200 A: The Ring of Fire is created by this type of plate boundary.

57. $200 Q: What is a convergent boundary?

58. $300 A: The volcanoes of Hawaii are all this type.

59. $300 Q: What are shield volcanoes?

60. $400 A: Sea-floor spreading occurs at this type of plate boundary.

61. $400 Q: What is a divergent boundary?

62. $500 A: This type of volcano alternates between gentle flows and violent eruptions.

63. $500 Q: What is a composite (strato) volcano?