1. IPS Spring Final Edition

2. Categories $300 $200 $100 $400 $500 Atmosphere & Climate Energy & CyclesAstronomyFifield’sChoiceEarthScienceMixtures IPS

3. $100 A: The type of mixture that separates into 2 layers when left undisturbed. Flour-water is an example.

4. $100 Q: What is a suspension?

5. $200 A: The type of mixture that looks uniform throughout, such a sugar-water.

6. $200 Q: What is a homogenous mixture? (or, what is a solution?)

7. $300 A: The process used to separate solid particles from water particles, in a mixture like flour-water, where the solid is insoluble.

8. $300 Q: What is filtering?

9. $400 A: In a solution, it is the substance being dissolved.

10. $400 Q: What is a solute?

11. $500 A: The type of mixture that is “different throughout”, such as oil-water which forms 2 distinct layers.

12. $500 Q: What is a heterogeneous mixture?

13. $100 A: The number of seismograph stations needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.

14. $100 Q: What is three (3)? http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/earthquakes.html

15. $200 A: The type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving apart from one another.

16. $200 Q: What is a divergent boundary? http://geology.com/nsta/divergent-plate-boundaries.shtml

17. $300 A: The type of crust that will subduct when continental and oceanic crust come together.

18. $300 Q: What is oceanic? http://www.platetectonics.com/book/page_12.asp

19. $400 A: The type of volcano that has smooth, flowing eruptions and gently sloping sides.

20. $400 Q: What is a shield volcano? http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/images/pglossary/ShieldVolcano.php

21. $500 A: The type of rock that is formed when an existing rock is exposed to great amounts of heat and/or pressure.

22. $500 Q: What is a metamorphic rock? http://www.minimegeology.com/home/mgeo/page_77_22/slate_metamorphic_rock.html

23. $100 A: The atmospheric layer that contains ozone.

24. $100 Q: What is the stratosphere? http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/weather3.htm

25. $200 A: The temperature will do this as you move higher in the troposphere.

26. $200 Q: What is decrease? http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/chen/atmosphere/earthatmosphere.htm

27. $300 A: Towards the shore or away from the shore, the direction that coastal breezes blow in the afternoon.

28. $300 Q: What is towards the shore? http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/kids/activities.php

29. $400 A: The name of the situation that occurs when warm air near Earth’s surface becomes trapped beneath a layer of cool air; it often traps pollution in our valley

30. $400 Q: What is a temperature inversion? http://www.windows2uni verse.org/milagro/air/tran sport.html

31. $500 A: Earth’s early atmosphere was considered to be composed of these two elements.

32. $500 Q: What are hydrogen and helium? http://www.crikey-adventure-tours.com/stromatolites.html

33. $100 A: The type of reaction that releases energy from the system to the surroundings.

34. $100 Q: What is an exothermic reaction? http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/chem30_05/1_energy/energy2_1.htm

35. $200 A: Plants give this off when they photosynthesize.

36. $200 Q: What is oxygen? http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/vdivener/notes/solid-liquid-gas.htm

37. $300 A: Combustion from fossil fuel-burning engines adds this carbon-compound to the atmosphere.

38. $300 Q: What is carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? http://boomeria.org/grades/demos/methane.html

39. $400 A: Water evaporates from plants during this process of the water cycle.

40. $400 Q: What is transpiration? http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/amm03205/e-port/Transp.html

42. $500 A: These are buried deep beneath earth’s crust forming coal, oil and gas.

43. $500 Q: What are fossil fuels?

44. $100 A: As more carbon dioxide is released into the air heat is trapped, causing this effect.

45. $100 Q: What is the greenhouse effect? https://marchantscience.wikispaces.com/envikt

46. $200 A: Between the inner and outer planets, the ones that are gaseous. http://www.universetoday.com/15451/the-solar-system/

47. $200 A: What are the outer planets?

48. $300 A: The tectonic plates are made out of this; it is composed of the crust and upper layer of the mantle.

49. $300 Q: What is the lithosphere? http://astronomyonline.org/SolarSystem/EarthGeography.asp

50. $400 A: The type of galaxy known as the Milky Way.

51. $400 Q: What is a spiral?

52. $500 A: The type of carbohydrate (sugar) that is produced by plants during photosynthesis and then used in respiration.

53. $500 Q: What is glucose (C 6 H 12 O 6 )?

54. $100 A: The Sun will becomes this type of star in the next phase of its life cycle.

55. $100 Q: What is a red giant? http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=359

56. $200 A: Light travels so fast that it reaches Earth in seconds, minutes, or hours?

57. $200 Q: What are minutes (8 minutes)?

58. $300 A: A star is “born” when these reactions begin in its core.

59. $300 Q: What are nuclear fusion reactions?

60. $400 A: The contestant on the right will win $400 if she can name the unit of distance often used in astronomy.

61. $400 Q: What is a light year?

62. $500 A: This was the evidence Hubble discovered that led to his conclusion that the universe is expanding.

63. $500 Q: What is red shift?