The Earth Science Game Show
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Vocabulary-1 for 100
What planet comes after
Saturn?
Uranus
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Vocabulary-1 for 200
This is process where
water vapor becomes a
liquid.
What is
condensation?
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Vocabulary-1 for 300
This is the force that
holds the planet and their
moons in orbit.
What is gravity?
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Vocabulary-1 for 400
This causes the phases of
the moon.
The moon orbiting
the Earth.
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Vocabulary-1 for 500
This takes about 28 days
to complete.
What is the moon
or lunar cycle?
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Vocabulary-2 for 100
This gas in the air would
increase if a large
number of trees were cut
down.
What is carbon
dioxide?
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Vocabulary-2 for 200
The movement of sand
along the beach and the
erosion of rock on the
shore are the direct result
of a force caused by this.
What are ocean
waves or tides?
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Vocabulary-2 for 300
The energy that causes
seawater to form water
vapor comes from this
source.
What is the sun?
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Vocabulary-2 for 400
Solar energy is an
________ resource?
What is an
inexhaustible
resource?
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Vocabulary-2 for 500
The tilt and rotation of
the Earth on its axis as it
revolves around the sun
is responsible for this
cycle.
What are seasons?
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Vocabulary-3 for 100
In order for tomato
plants to make their own
food, their leaves must
absorb these 2 things.
What are sunlight
and carbon
dioxide?
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Vocabulary-3 for 200
Coal is considered a
___________ resource.
What is a
nonrenewable
resource?
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Vocabulary-3 for 300
This is the fifth planet
from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
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Vocabulary-3 for 400
Most canyons are the
result of ______ caused
by rivers.
What is erosion?
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Vocabulary-3 for 500
This is a landform
formed by volcanic
activity that can be found
on both the earth and the
moon.
What are volcanos
/mountains?
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Vocabulary-4 for 100
A match will not burn on
the moon because there
is no __________.
What is oxygen?
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Vocabulary-4 for 200
What can scientists study
to learn about animals
that have been extinct for
millions of years?
What are fossils?
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Vocabulary-4 for 300
Coal is a fossil fuel that
was formed hundreds of
millions of years ago
from the remains of
__________.
What are dead
plants and
animals?
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Vocabulary-4 for 400
A rock was taken from
the moon and brought to
the earth. _______ will
be different about this
rock.
What is weight?
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Vocabulary-4 for 500
The moon shines at night
even though it produces
no light. It can do this
because it __________.
How does the
moon reflect light
from the sun?
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Vocabulary-5 for 100
__________ will make a
quick change to the
Earth’s surface.
What are
volcanoes or
earthquakes?
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Vocabulary-5 for 200
Freezing and melting water
causes rocks to break slowly
into smaller and smaller
pieces. This is a type of
what process?
What is
weathering?
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Vocabulary-5 for 300
Oil, natural gas and coal
provide most of the
energy we use today.
We call them ________
resources.
What are
nonrenewable
resources?
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Vocabulary-5 for 400
Name 3 fossil fuels.
What are oil,
natural gas, and
coal?
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Vocabulary-5 for 500
Name an alternative
energy resource.
What is
hydroelectric,
geothermal,
biofuels, wind, or
solar?
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