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2. What is the middle of a hurricane called?
Weather for 100
What is the middle of a hurricane called?
Answer: The Eye

3. What is the middle of a tornado called?
Weather for 200
What is the middle of a tornado called?
Answer: Vortex

4. Weather for 300 How are hurricanes classified?
Answer: By their wind speed

5. Weather for 400
What is the rise is sea level caused by a hurricane’s winds called?
Answer: Storm Surge

6. Weather for 500 Where do hurricane’s form? Tornados?
Answer: Water; land

7. Minerals 100
What areNatural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks are called?
Answer: Minerals

8. All rocks are made of minerals
True or False
All rocks are made of minerals
Answer: True

9. Minerals 300 What is the name of the scale used to classify minerals?
Answer: MOHS Scale

10. Minerals 400 What is the best property to use to classify a mineral?
Answer: The minerals streak

11. Daily Double

12. True or False Minerals for 500 Minerals are found in the food we eat.
Answer:True

13. Rocks 100
What is eroded material that settles at the bottom of lakes, rivers, and oceans called?
Answer: Sediment

14. Rocks 200
What are rocks that form when layers of particles cement together and harden called?
Answer: Sedimentary Rocks

15. Rocks for 300
What are rocks that form when molten rock cools and harden called?
Answer: Igneous Rock

16. Rocks for 400
What are rocks that have changed due to constant heat and pressure called?
Answer: Metamorphic Rock

17. Rocks for 500
The rock cycle is a process that is NOT always occurring. True or False
Answer: False

18. What is the process that breaks down rocks called?
Weathering for 100
What is the process that breaks down rocks called?
Answer: Weathering

19. What are the two different types of weathering?
Weathering for 200
What are the two different types of weathering?
Answer: Chemical and physical

20. Weathering for 300
Water freezing in the cracks of rocks is a type of __________weathering.
Answer: Physical

21. Weathering for 400
Acids in rainwater is a type of ___________ weathering.
Answer: chemical

22. Weathering for 500 Flowing water is a type of __________ weathering
Answer: Physical

23. Earth’s Surface for 100
What is the movement of weathered rocks called?
Answer: Erosion

24. Earth’s Surface for 200
What is the laying down of weathered material called?
Answer: Deposition

25. Earth’s Surface for 300
What causes a landslide?
Answer: Gravity

26. Earth’s Surface for 400 Name one way you can help reduce erosion.
Answer: Check

27. Earth’s Surface for 500
Can glaciers cause erosion when they move? How?
Answer: Yes

28. What does the earth rotates on?
Earth’s Movement for 100
What does the earth rotates on?
Answer: It’s Axis

29. Earth’s Movement for 200 What is one revolution equal to?
Answer: 1 trip around the sun

30. Earth’s Movement for 300
What is it called when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow?
Answer: Lunar Eclipse

31. Earth’s Movement for 400
What is the shape of Earth’s orbit around the sun?
Answer: An Ellipse

32. Earth’s Movement for 500
What causes night and day and seasons on earth? Explain
Answer: Check