NGSS EARTH SCIENCE TRIVIA

Question 1

The weather you would expect to have in a particular region.

Accepted Answer

climate

Question 2

Which can lead to the depletion of the ozone layer of Earth?

Accepted Answer

Air conditioning

Question 3

Continental plates float atop magma and move as a result of __________

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Convection currents

Question 4

How do scientist explain the formation of underwater mountain ranges

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Seafloor spreading

Question 5

This effect keeps the Earth 60 degrees warmer and is necessary to maintain life on earth

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Green house effect

Question 6

Which is a major source of air pollution created by humans?

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industraial Factories

Question 7

Which of the following is not part of the water cycle?

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Convection

Question 8

How does the heat from the sun get to Earth?

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By radiation, using electromagnetic waves to transfer heat.

Question 9

A slow moving river of ice

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Glacier

Question 10

Which of the following is not a major Earth System?

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Astrosphere

Question 11

How is a star powered?

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Nuclear Fusion

Question 12

An increase in the Earth's average temperature

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Global Warming

Question 13

The sun releases energy in the form of?

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Solar Radiation

Question 14

What regulates weather and climate

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All the above

Question 15

Which of the following is the best evidence for the Big Bang theory

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The universe is expanding

Question 16

Which of the following does not regulate weather and climate?

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Tornadoes

Question 17

What are the sun driven systems that tear down land through weathering and erosion.

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All the above

Question 18

Why do green plants require solar energy

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To produce their own food

Question 19

What evidence proved that South America, Africa, India and were once covered by glaciers.

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Glacial deposits and rock surfaces scarred by glaciers.

Question 20

Which of the following is true about the Carbon Cycle?

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All of the above

Question 21

As water freezes into ice, it expands and breaks rocks apart. What is this process known as?

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Frost wedging

Question 22

Some of the water on the Earth is believed to have come from these?

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meteors

Question 23

What are solar winds?

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A steady flow of particles streaming out from the sun

Question 24

Which of the following is not one of Kepler's three laws

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The speed of Earth is constant regardless of distance sun

Question 25

Major changes in temperature, rainfall, snow, or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer.

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Climate Change

Question 26

What part of the Earth system benefits from increased levels of Carbon dioxide?

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Plant biosphere

Question 27

What is the estimated age of the Earth

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None of the above

Question 28

Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and Methane are all categorized as being what

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Green House Gases

Question 29

A period of time where glaciers covered a large part of the Earth's Surface

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Ice Age

Question 30

Forms a thin shield high up in the sky protecting life from the suns ultraviolet rays.

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Ozone Layer

Question 31

The Air that surround the Earth

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Atmosphere

Question 32

The super continent in the continental drift hypothesis was called

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Pangaea

Question 33

Which of the following is a cause of climat change?

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All of the Above

Question 34

Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and Methane are all categorized as being what

Accepted Answer

Green House Gases

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